Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dorbel.
Examples
-
A "talmudical dotard," exclaims one Puritan divine pointing a finger of scorn at a brother of the cloth; "talmudical dorbel [blockhead]," retorts another in the midst of acrimonious debate.
Gammerstang commented on the word dorbel
(noun) - A dull-witted pedant; a foolish pretender to learning; from Nicholas Dorbellus (c. 1400-1475), a professor of scholastic philosophy at Poitiers, and a follower of Duns Scotus, whose name gave us dunce. --Joseph Shipley's Dictionary of Early English, 1955
February 6, 2018