Meaning

1 senses
  1. (derogatory)A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

    Blödmann, Tölpel, Trottel

    болва́нbolván

    a person who is not very bright

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Only a dolt could fail to understand what was implied by that letter.

    ruТолько идиот мог не догадаться, что означает это письмо. — odexed

  2. Stop being such dolts.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard:
Deutsch
a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard:

Origin

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confus

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.

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Forms

plural: dolts
Singulardolt
Pluraldolts

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who is not very bright:stupidstupid personstupedullardpudding headpudden-headpoor fish

See also

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