What is a dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Colloq.] They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot called?
numskull — A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Colloq.] They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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