| 单词 | nitwit |
| 释义 | nitwit (once / 94555 pages) n A nitwit is a foolish person. If you bake a cake and stir a cup of salt into the batter instead of sugar, your brother will probably call you a nitwit. It's not nice to call someone a nitwit, but it's hard to resist when people do things that are outrageously incompetent or ridiculous. It's pretty common to refer to entire groups of people as nitwits, like politicians or fans of a rival sports team. The word comes from nit, "nothing" in dialectical Yiddish, and wit, "sense or intelligence." WORD FAMILYnitwit: nitwits USAGE EXAMPLESHBO has finally corrected that and released all six seasons of his timeless comedy about a self-involved talkshow host and the nitwits in his orbit. The Guardian(Sep 26, 2016) Yet it happened every summer, and every summer some nitwit tourist got gored. Carl Hiaasen, Hoot(2002) Unfortunately, he used the opportunity to cement his status as a racist nitwit: Salon(Jul 21, 2016) n a stupid incompetent person Syn|Hyper dimwit, doofus, half-wit simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense |
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