numskulled, a.
(ˈnʌmskʌld)
[f. prec. + -ed2.]
Dull- or slow-witted; stupid.
| 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 12 His Proxy, some numb-skull'd Officer, whom he most esteems. 1712 Arbuthnot John Bull i. xii, That Clod-pated, Numskull'd, Ninny-hammer of yours. 1881 A. J. Duffield Don Quixote II. 361 Is it possible that your worship is so numskulled and so lacking in brains? |
Hence numˈskulledness.
| 1885 Sat. Rev. 28 Nov. 717 The practitioners of this black art..carried it out with at least a heroic consistency of numskulledness. |