dolt

See also: dőlt

English

Etymology

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɒlt/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dəʊlt/, /dɔʊlt/
(US) IPA^(key): /doʊlt/
Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

dolt (plural dolts)

(derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice
  O gull! O dolt! As ignorant as dirt!
- Drayton
  This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:fool

Derived terms

doltery
doltish

Translations

A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard

Armenian: տխմար (hy) (txmar)
Bulgarian: глупак (bg) m (glupak), тъпак (bg) (tǎpak)
Faroese: býttlingur m, dylhøvd n
Finnish: tollo (fi), tomppeli (fi), typerys (fi), pölkkypää (fi)
French: imbécile (fr)
German: Blödmann (de) m, Tölpel (de) m, Trottel (de) m, Dummkopf (de) m, Tölpel (de) m, Depp (de) m
Hungarian: tökfilkó (hu), tökfej (hu)
Irish: amhlán m

Italian: imbecille (it) m
Latin: gurdus m
Polish: głupek (pl) m
Portuguese: imbecil (pt) m
Russian: болва́н (ru) m (bolván)
Scottish Gaelic: amadan m, burraidh m, bachall m
Spanish: estúpido (es)

Verb

dolt (third-person singular simple present dolts, present participle dolting, simple past and past participle dolted)

(obsolete) To behave foolishly.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dolt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

told

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɔlt/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

dolt

second- and third-person singular present indicative of dollen
(archaic) plural imperative of dollen

Manx

Verb

dolt (verbal noun doltey, past participle doltit)

to adopt, foster, initiate

Synonyms

(to foster): doltaghey

Swedish

Adjective

dolt

absolute indefinite neuter form of dold.

Verb

dolt

supine of dölja.