dolt

See also: dőlt

English

Etymology

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

• IPA^(key): /dɒlt/
• IPA^(key): /dəʊlt/, /dɔʊlt/
• IPA^(key): /doʊlt/
• Rhymes: -əʊlt

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

dolt (plural dolts)

1. (derogatory) 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 Thesaurus:fool

Derived terms

• doltery
• doltish

Translations

A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard

• Armenian: տխմար (hy) (txmar)
• Bulgarian: глупак (bg) m (glupak), тъпак (bg) (tǎpak)
• Faroese: býttlingur m, dylhøvd n
• Finnish: tollo (fi), tomppeli (fi), typerys (fi), pölkkypää (fi)
• French: imbécile (fr)
• German: Blödmann (de) m, Tölpel (de) m, Trottel (de) m, Dummkopf (de) m, Tölpel (de) m, Depp (de) m
• Hungarian: tökfilkó (hu), tökfej (hu)
• Irish: amhlán m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: imbecille (it) m
• Latin: gurdus m, blennus m, fungus m
• Polish: głupek (pl) m
• Portuguese: imbecil (pt) m
• Russian: болва́н (ru) m (bolván)
• Sanskrit: मूढ (sa) m (mūḍha)
• Scottish Gaelic: amadan m, burraidh m, bachall m
• Spanish: estúpido (es)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dolt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• told

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔlt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

dolt

1. (deprecated template usage) second- and third-person singular present indicative of dollen
2. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) 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. (deprecated template usage) indefinite neuter singular of dold

Verb

dolt

1. (deprecated template usage) supine of dölja