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单词 left-witted
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left-witted
left-witted adj. Obsolete stupid, foolish.Cf. note at sense A. 1b.
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a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 19 in Wks. (1640) III O I left-witted [L. o ego lævus], that purge every spring For choller!
1658 T. Long Exercitation Frequent Use Lords Prayer 49 He that considers the design of that left-witted heathen, cannot devise what else he should mean.
1880 R. Comfort Nero iii. ii. 44 You poor patch of faculties, left witted fool.
1905 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 26 167 (note) Left-handed=awkward, unskilful; left-witted=dull, stupid.
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