A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.
1 This, roughly speaking, is the notion of the average male numskull today.
2 You are a numskull , you are,- agoose ,thedisgrace of the army.
3 For a simple numskull of a shepherd are so many words necessary?
4 What crotchet has that swaggering booby got in his numskull , I wonder?
5 What do you mean, you numskull , by saying that they are Prussians?
6 In any case, it's much too good for a peasant numskull like you.
7 You're the most ill-used lad and I the greatest numskull in the county.
8 The message was here all the time - that numskull Heinrich forgot it.
9 John, did you ever know that your father was a stupid old numskull ?
10 I said Hastings said it; and he is not in the least a numskull .
11 The idea is singular enough, I own, the presuming to astonish his serene numskull .
12 Anybody but a silly old numskull would have done so.
13 Arthur Hugh Clough is, perhaps, the 'flawless numskull , ' as, I think, Swinburne calls him.
14 Deadest numskull I ever saw-ain'teven got sense enough to load up a stove.'
15 The numskull said there was something wrong with my house!
16 I'll go hunt up that old blockhead, that absurd numskull !
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