| 单词 | dumb dora |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdumb Dora b. Foolish, stupid, ignorant (chiefly of persons); spec. dumb blonde, a conspicuously attractive but stupid blonde woman; dumb bunny, a stupid person; dumb Dora, a stupid girl; dumb ox, a stupid, awkward, or uncommunicative man (cf. sense A. 1b above); spec. a nickname for St. Thomas Aquinas. colloquial.Possibly reinforced by German dumm or Dutch dom. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 c1323 P. Calo Vita in D. Prümmer Fontes Vitae S. Thomae Aquinatis (1912) i. 78 Cœperunt eum Fratres vocare bovem mutum.] 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 393 His [sc. St. Thomas's] school-fellows thought he learned nothing, and, on account of his silence, called him The dumb Ox. 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 393 Albertus not able to contain his joy and admiration, said, ‘We call him the dumb ox, but he will give such a bellow in learning as will be heard all over the world.’ 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot II. iii. 39 ‘They're a dumb race’ said the cockswain,..‘now, there was our sargeant, who ought to know something.’ 1825 J. F. Cooper Lionel Lincoln (1859) ix. 133 Do you think the Boston people so dumb as not to know the law? 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend vi. 271 To gather in piles the pitiful chaff That old Peter Lombard thrashed with his brain, To have it caught up and tossed again On the horns of the Dumb Ox of Cologne. 1888 F. R. Stockton Dusantes 124 The Grootenheimers always was the dumbest family in the township. 1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 441/1 My, but men are dumb. A woman would have caught on long ago. 1914 R. Brooke Let. 15–17 Aug. (1968) 609 This is a badly-written, dumb, letter. 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 259 I been so dumb not to right away see it. 1922 Dial. Notes 5 141 Dumb-bunny [in College slang], a somewhat stupid person... ‘My dear, you are the preshest old dumb-bunny.’ 1922 Dial. Notes 5 147 Dumbdora, a stupid girl. 1930 C. Terrett Only Saps Work 149 The police of Buffalo are too dumb—it would be redundant, I suppose, to say ‘and honest’—to play ball with the hold-up mobs. 1932 ‘A. Bridge’ Peking Picnic xx. 255 He is that dumb, if you'll pardon the word, madam, that not a bit of sense could I get out of him. 1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles vi. 62 A sulky fair girl, who played ‘dumb’ blondes from year's end to year's end. 1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart i. i. 25 One has got to see just how dumb Mr. Quayne was. He had not got a mind that joins one thing and another up. 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 24 Dumb bunny, stupid person. 1947 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 594/2 The cult of ‘dumb-ox’ individualism is certainly unsuitable for New Zealand, where the individual has rarely bulked as large as the State. 1959 ‘M. Derby’ Tigress ii. 88 The dumb blonde to whom all instruments and machinery were insoluble riddles. 1959 Listener 16 July 110/3 An amiable dumb-ox. 1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai ix. 145 They [sc. hens] would then wait expectantly, heads cocked on one side with a sort of dumb-Dora inquisitive chuckle. < as lemmas |
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