thickwitted

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Etymology

From thick +‎ witted.

Adjective

thickwitted (comparative more thickwitted, superlative most thickwitted)

  1. Stupid, dim-witted.
    • 1865, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 12, page 99:
      His son she viewed as one of the thickwitted giants meant to be food for the heroism of good knights of romance.
    • 1996, Eugene Cunningham, Triggernometry: a gallery of gunfighters, page 41:
      And this was the smooth-faced, frightened, helpless boy, whom those two thickwitted, bullying officers were carrying to Waco!

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