dolt

English

Etymology

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from English dialectal 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.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

dolt (plural dolts)

1. (pejorative) 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!

   • Drayton

     This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:fool

Translations

A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard

• Armenian: տխմար (hy) (txmar)
• Bulgarian: глупак (bg) (glupak) m, тъпак (bg) (tǎpak)
• Finnish: tollo (fi), tomppeli (fi), typerys (fi), pölkkypää (fi)
• French: imbécile (fr)
• Hungarian: tökfilkó (hu), tökfej (hu)

• Portuguese: imbecil (pt) m
• Russian: болван (ru) (bolván) m
• Scottish Gaelic: amadan (gd) m, burraidh (gd) m
• Spanish: estúpido (es)

Derived terms

• doltish

Verb

dolt (third-person singular simple present dolts, present participle dolting, simple past and past participle dolted)

1. (obsolete) To behave foolishly.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• told

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

dolt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of dollen
2. plural imperative of dollen

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Manx

Verb

dolt (verbal noun doltey, past participle doltit)

1. to adopt, foster, initiate

Synonyms

• (to foster): doltaghey

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Swedish

Adjective

dolt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of dold.

Verb

dolt

1. supine of dölja.