beef-witted

English

Etymology

beef +‎ witted

Adjective

beef-witted (comparative more beef-witted, superlative most beef-witted)

  1. (obsolete) stupid; dull
    • Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
      The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for beef-witted in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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