underwit

An underwitted person; a nitwit.

Noun

  1. An underwitted person; a nitwit.
    • c. 1699-1736, Jonathan Swift, Of the Education of Ladies That in the mean time, her household affairs, and the care of her children, will be wholly laid aside; her toilet will be crowded with all the under-wits, where...
    • "Well," said the captain, "then we must come Yankee over them, and I've notions enough here to baffle a nation of such underwits." - 1832, Mary Russell Mitford, Lights and shadows of American life:

Origin

From under- + wit.

Forms

underwits under-wit