dolt n : a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, dullard, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

1. A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
   • c. 1603: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice

     O gull! O dolt! As ignorant as dirt!

Translations

Derived terms

• doltish

Swedish

Verb

dolt

1. supine tense of dölja

Boeotian, ass, birdbrain, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bonehead, boob, booby, boor, botcher, bumbler, bungler, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, dimwit, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dolthead, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, flake, fool, fumbler, gawk, goon, gowk, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, jobbernowl, klutz, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, lout, lubber, lunkhead, moron, muggins, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, numskull, oaf, ox, pinhead, put, simpleton, slouch, slubberer, stupid, thickwit, twit, witling, yokel