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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A stupid person; a nitwit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. colloq. A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

Etymologies

  1. From numb ("deadened") + skull. (Wiktionary)
  2. num (variant of numb) + skull. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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