numbskull

Historical Examples of numbskull

• I broke my hip when we lived in Steelville, and the doctor was a numbskull.

  A Far Country, Complete

  Winston Churchill

• “What a numbskull I was to throw it there and not tell anyone about it,” he thought to himself.

  The Firebug

  Roy J. Snell

• Half awake again, I had a cursing spree, calling myself fifty kinds of a numbskull.

  Stamped Caution

  Raymond Zinke Gallun

• E 'as more happetite than gumption, and swallers anythink that comes 'andy, like the jolt-'ed or numbskull that 'e is. '

  Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others

  James Alexander Henshall

• You 've put over your fake; you 've had your laugh; you 've framed it so I 'll be the butt of every numbskull in Ohadi.

  The Cross-Cut

  Courtney Ryley Cooper