“What a numbskull I was to throw it there and not tell anyone about it,” he thought to himself.

E 'as more happetite than gumption, and swallers anythink that comes 'andy, like the jolt-'ed or numbskull that 'e is. '

Half awake again, I had a cursing spree, calling myself fifty kinds of a numbskull.

I broke my hip when we lived in Steelville, and the doctor was a numbskull.