underwitn.
1. A poor or inferior kind of wit.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > witty person > inferior
penny-wit1619
underwit1655
wit-would1678
witling1693
1655 J. Shirley Polititian Ded. Some abuses of the common theatres (which were not so happily purged from scurrility and under-wit—the only entertainment of vulgar capacities).
2. A person of deficient understanding; a half-witted person.Used as a surname in the Duke of Newcastle's Country Captain (1649).
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > person
congeonc1285
idiota1400
foola1425
natural foolc1450
natural idiot1497
natural1533
changeling1577
weakling1577
mooncalf1586
slimslack1600
aufe1621
oaf1638
weak-wit1656
underwit1682
imbecile1830
ament1871
unfortunate1881
balmy1903
subnormal1905
deficient1906
retard1909
retardate1912
retarded1912
mopoke1946
retardee1956
mong1980
1682 Heraclitus Ridens 24 Jan. 1/1 Having often met with some of the Under-wits of that Panel, who threatned what their Foreman could have done.
1900 Everybody's Mag. 3 513/2 He was a single man, and many said an underwit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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