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underwit

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An underwitted person; a nitwit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • c. 1699-1736, Jonathan Swift, Of the Education of Ladies That in the mean time, her household affairs, and the care of her children, will be wholly laid aside; her toilet will be crowded with all the under-wits, where the conversation will pass in criticising on the last play or poem that comes out [...]

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History

Etymology

From under- + wit.