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单词 want-wit
释义 ˈwant-wit
[f. want v. + wit n. Cf. lack-wit (lack v.1 7).]
One who lacks wit or sense.
1448–9J. Metham Amoryus & Cl. 1459 But alle to late now, as wantewyttys we make owre mone.1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 41 Shall we thinke..that he would be such a want witte as to take all kynde of coine..and neuer examine it?1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 6 And such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of mee, That I haue much ado to know my selfe.1610Chester's Triumph (Chetham Soc.) C 3, Because I hate to heare a want-wit preach Beyond wits bounds. [1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1900) 266 They saw one Fool, and one Want-wit, washing of an Ethiopian with intention to make him white.]1900H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne iii. (1905) 42 She trembled now to think that they had turned a want-wit..into the heart of the pathless and bog-riddled heath.
b. attrib. or adj. Witless, senseless.
1894‘G. Egerton’ Keynotes 44, I laugh at myself for my want-wit agitation.1900H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne iii. (1905) 47 To pick a quarrel with the want-wit fellow.
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