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- Middle English · derived fromdold
- English todaydolt
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.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishdold all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.