dolt

plural dolts

1. derogatoryA stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

   This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.

   1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC

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   O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]

   c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 337

   Moſt Monſter-like, be ſhewne / For poor'ſt Diminutiues, for Dolts, […]

   c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xii], page 361

   Those who loathe “Jackass” — which brought the world beer enemas and urine snow cones and thrust its merry band of dolts into reptile lairs and shark-infested waters — have called it disgusting and irresponsible: an incitement to copycat idiocy, if not a sign of the end of Western civilization.

   2010 October 8, By Dennis Lim, “Another Dimension of Idiocy”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: alcatote, asshat, arsehole, asshole, bayard, berk, birdbrain, blither

present singular third person dolts · participle present dolting · participle past dolted · past dolted

1. obsoleteTo behave foolishly.
2. To fool; to trick

   Some by frequent Practice will never be dolted

   1674, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester