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beef-witted

beef-witted adjective: stupid; dull.

Adjective

beef-witted (comparative more beef-witted, superlative most beef-witted)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete) stupid; dull
    • The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of beef-witted

comparativemore beef-witted
superlativemost beef-witted

Origin of beef-witted

From beef + witted.

Questions about beef-witted

What does beef-witted mean?
Beef-witted means stupid; dull.
What part of speech is beef-witted?
Beef-witted is an adjective.

Words near beef-witted in the dictionary

  1. beef wellington
  2. beef Wellingtons
  3. beef-brained
  4. beef-house
  5. beef-houses
  6. beef-witted
  7. Beefa
  8. beefalo
  9. beefaloes
  10. beefalos
  11. beefarm

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