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Definition of Numbskulls
1. numbskull [n] - See also: numbskull
Lexicographical Neighbors of Numbskulls
Literary usage of Numbskulls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... grades (eccentrics, originals, the simple-minded, the limited, blockheads,
numbskulls, fools, dunces, no-goods, Weary-Willies, Simple- Simons, etc.). ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"Would you believe it, Hogg, that it is no unusual thing for droves of numbskulls
to come driving along these lobbies, poking their low-browed stupidities ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1908)
"There is no place for numbskulls in the business; while we may find many there.
There is absolutely no foundation for prejudice against dairying, ..."
4. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... we have Cloten, the prince of numbskulls, whose part, indecencies and all, is
a literary masterpiece from the first line to the last ..."
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