dizzard†, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer†; chowderhead†, chucklehead†;
dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby†, hoddy-doddy†, noddy, nonny, noodle,
nizy†, owl; goose, goosecap†; imbecile; gaby†; radoteur†, nincompoop,
badaud†, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais†.
child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.
oaf, lout, loon, lown†, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard,
block, put, stick, stock, numps†, tony.
bull head, dunderhead, addlehead†, blockhead, dullhead†,
loggerhead, jolthead†, jolterhead†, beetlehead†, beetlebrain, grosshead†,
muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead†; numbskull, thickskull†; lackbrain†,
shallowbrain†; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit†; dunderpate†; lunkhead sawney
[U.S.], gowk†; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull
calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of
Gotham.
un sot a triple etage [Fr.], sot; jobbernowl†, changeling,
mooncalf, gobemouche†.
dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother;
cotquean†, henhussy†.
incompetent (insanity) 503.
greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; dunce &c (ignoramus) 493; lubber &c
(bungler) 701; madman &c 504.
one who will not set the Thames on fire; one who did not invent
gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre [Fr.]; no conjuror.
Phr. fortuna favet fatuis [Lat.]; les fous font les festinas et les
sages les mangent [Fr.]; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent [Lat.];
stultorum plena sunt omnia [Lat.] [Cicero].