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WANTWIT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of WANTWIT is a person wanting wit : fool. www.merriam-webster.com
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want-wit (adj.) - ShakespearesWords.com
Want-wit (adj.) means senseless, stupid, or ridiculous. www.shakespeareswords.com
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wantwit - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
wantwit (plural wantwits). A person wanting or lacking wit or sense; a fool. c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, ... en.wiktionary.org
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want-wit
ˈwant-wit [f. want v. + wit n. Cf. lack-wit (lack v.1 7).] One who lacks wit or sense.1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cl. 1459 But alle to late now, as wantewyttys we make owre mone. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 41 Shall we thinke..that he would be such a want witte as to take all kynde of coine..... Oxford English Dictionary
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wantwit, n. & adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word wantwit. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning ... www.oed.com
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A.Word.A.Day --wantwit - Wordsmith.org
Wantwit is a noun meaning a fool or one lacking good sense. It comes from 'want' + 'wit', from Old Norse and Old English. www.wordsmith.org
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Idyll VI
and ‘gins to pine for me And glowers from the deep on the cave and the sheep like a want-wit lass o’ the sea And the dog that bayed, I hissed him on; for wikipedia.org
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Webster's Dictionary 1828 - Want-wit
WANT-WIT, noun [want and wit.] One destitute of wit or sense; a fool. [Not in much use.] Websters Dictionary 1828 webstersdictionary1828.com
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Wantwit Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
A person lacking wit or sense; a fool. Wiktionary. Other Word Forms of Wantwit. Noun. Singular: wantwit. Plural: wantwits. Origin of Wantwit. want + wit. www.yourdictionary.com
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The Merchant of Venice - ShakespearesWords.com
and such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of mee,, And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, want-wit (adj.) senseless, stupid, ridiculous ; That I haue much ado to know ... www.shakespeareswords.com
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How To Read And Understand Shakespeare | Talent 100 Education
Want-wit is a noun meaning “idiot” (literally someone who wants wit). Ado means “trouble”, but here it's closer to “difficulty”. Now we need to ... talent-100.com.au
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fathering
ˈfathering, vbl. n. [f. father v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. father; an instance of this.1549 Coverdale Erasm. Par. Rom. i. 1 A fauourable and gentle fatherying. Ibid. 6 Ye Romaines are..by adopcion & fatheryng, called all to the..Surname of Iesus Christe. 1894 ‘G. Egerton’ Discords 60 The want... Oxford English Dictionary
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Washing the Ethiopian White
There the travellers come across the characters Fool and Want-Wit 'washing of an Ethiopian with intention to make him white, but the more they washed him wikipedia.org
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want
▪ I. want, n.1 Now dial. (wɒnt) Forms: 1 wand, wond; 4–6 wonte, 7 wounte, 5– wont; 6 wante, (vant), 6– want; 9 dial. waunt, wunt, woont, (h)unt, (h)oont, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [OE. wand, wǫnd = Sw. dial. vand (cited by Aasen), Norw. vand, vaand, vond, v{obar}nd, mole, also shrew (also in comb... Oxford English Dictionary
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Antonio (The Merchant of Venice)
wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff ‘tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn And such a want-wit wikipedia.org
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