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Numskull

Numskull \Num"skull`\, n. [Numb + skull.] A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Also spelled numbskull.]

They have talked like numskulls.
--Arbuthnot.

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numskull

n. 1 (context pejorative English) A dunce, mentally dull or stupid person. 2 (context pejorative English) A label for a person who refuses to learn or grow mentally. 3 A traditional name for a fool who serves as the butt of jokes about stupidity.

WordNet
numskull

n. these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead]

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Numskull

Garrick Demond Husbands (born January 31, 1976), better known by the stage name Numskull. He is half of the Oakland duo The Luniz, a platinum-selling rap duo from Oakland, California formed by rappers Yukmouth and Numskull. They released an internationally successful hit in 1995 entitled " I Got 5 on It".

Usage examples of "numskull".

Mimm and if he is such a numskull as to prefer her to you maybe you are better off without him.

This, roughly speaking, is the notion of the average male numskull today.

Having denounced one lot of experts as numskulls she must be aware that the Proc can do the same.

Not even Winger would have the numskull nerve to go wandering around the Bohdan Zhibak.

And such a numskull is he as fondly to believe that the girls are so simple as to let slip their opportunities, while they wait on the caprice of father or brothers, who six times out of seven delay to marry them for three or four years after they should.

They had so many complaints to lodge with Siglen over suitable accommodations, lecture room, which part of the big landing field beyond the Tower would be far enough away to avoid interference with these lamebrained numskulls that they'd have to pamper and instruct.

These numskull Wanderjahrian FPs couldn't do a damn thing right, not unless it was looking parade ground sharp and marching in straight lines.