† mafflardn.
Obsolete.
A stammering or blundering fool.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]
mafflardc1450
juffler15..
dromedary1567
madbrain1570
batie buma1586
addle-head1592
blunderkin1596
nit1598
addle-pate1601
hash1655
blunderbuss1692
blunderhead1692
shaffles1703
fog-pate1732
blunderer1741
puzzle-pate1761
slouch1767
étourdi1768
botch1769
puddle1782
bumble1789
scatter-brain1790
addle-brain1799
puzzle-head1815
shaffler1828
chowderhead1833
muddlehead1833
muddler1833
flounderer1836
duffer1842
muddle-pate1844
plug1848
incompetent1866
schlemiel1868
dinlo1873
drumble-dore1881
hodmandod1881
dub1887
prune1895
foozler1896
bollock1916
messer1926
Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942
spaz1965
spastic1981
the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > one who speaks inarticulately > one who stammered or stuttered
wlaffer1340
buffera1382
droterc1440
stoterc1440
mafflardc1450
rattler1483
stammerera1513
fumbler1519
stutter1530
maffler1552
mantera1585
stutterer1598
hummer1820
c1450 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 225 Boothe be ware, bisshope thoughe thou be..the churche of Chester..crieth, alas! That to suche a mafflarde marryede she was.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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