Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. informal Someone lacking in intelligence
Etymologies
- From half and wit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They don't do those, I told him irritably (what kind of halfwit expects a menu in a restaurant?).”
“Strange … the "halfwit" won both presidential campaigns he ran …. cs89 on April 8, 2009 at 8: 44 PM”
“Strange … the "halfwit" won both presidential campaigns he ran ….”
“You just can't be sure that that someone wasn't a "halfwit, fool or a person with a grudge.”
“And yet even the halfwit books retain a certain fascination, as Messrs.”
“Meanwhile, Nick breaks the awkward silence with Madge concerning her current plight, and a not very plausible ginger-haired halfwit continues to pursue the ladies.”
“The trouble with that logic is I am black and I am not childish halfwit who espouses the mantra of racism many people of color spew forth.”
“On Wednesday, in my new-found role as court reporter, I heard Paul's QC argue that only a "halfwit" wouldn't see that this was a joke.”
The Guardian: Al Murray on the Twitter joke trial: 'Problem is, the law don't do funny'
“In 2008, it became an everyday occurrence to spend a bus or train journey inwardly groaning as some halfwit of a fellow passenger broadcast music through the tinny loudspeakers of their mobile.”
“Sash is smart, but not quite smart enough to outwit the halfwit.”
The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘halfwit’.
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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by half
half as good as most lists
halfheimers, half time, halfhearted, half a mind to, half nelson, half caf, half and half, half-pint, half-cocked, half-wit, half again, half-crazed and 19 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
idiot, cretin, moron, dimwit, nincompoop, meathead, addlepate, dingbat, dumbbell, dunce, fool, halfwit and 31 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
Tweets
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slumry Old joke alert!
"He thought he was a wit, and he was half right." Jul 12, 2007