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English
Etymology
From beef + witted.
Adjective
beef-witted (comparative more beef-witted, superlative most beef-witted)
- (obsolete, derogatory) stupid; dull
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!
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