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Definition of Numbskull
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Numbskull
Literary usage of Numbskull
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noetes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1854)
"can be perpetrated only by a natural numbskull, and is beyond the reach of art.
North. And Shelley truly loved Leight Hunt. Their friendship was honorable ..."
2. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1895)
"numbskull ! numbskull ! numbskull ! " cried the old fellow in an ecstasy of fury
that seemed to spring up as suddenly as a squall between the islands, ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Gibson Lockhart, John Wilson, James Hogg, William Maginn (1854)
"can be perpetrated only by a natural numbskull, and is beyond the reach of art.
North. And Shelley truly loved Leight Hunt. Their friendship was honorable ..."
4. Kirkumdoon, by Peter Ponder by William Bell (1875)
"... Auld Blinky; ye've nae knowledge o' law, ye're an auld numbskull! I insist on
my name bein' keepit on the ... "numbskull!" "Hurrah for Sandy Crummy! ..."
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