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681 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. כֶּ֫סֶל.2
… , 2. stupidity, 3. confidence ( NH id. loin; Aramaic כִּסְלָא id. ) ;— 1. loins כָּ֑סֶל Jb 15:27; pl. כְּסָלִים Lv 3:4, 10, 15; 4:9; 7:4; sf. כְּסָלַי ψ 38:8. 2. stupidity, folly כ׳ Ec 7:25 (‖ סִכְלוּת …
682 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. כָּסַל.2
… , כְּסִילוּת stupidity, folly, כְּסִיל stupid fellow ) — Qal Impf. יִכְסָ֑לוּ they become stupid Je 10:8 (‖ יִבְעֲרוּ they become brutish ).
683 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. עָבָה.2
… , dense, stupid, and many deriv.; Arabic غَبِىَ be dense, stupid, أَغُبَى dense foliage; Ethiopic ዐብየ: be great Di 985 ) ;— Qal Pf. 3 ms. קָֽטֳנִּי ע׳ מִמָּתְנֵי אָבִי 1 K …
684 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. פַּשׁ.2
† פַּשׁ n. [ m. ] Jb 35:15 si vera l. from √ פשׁשׁ ( cf. Arabic فَسِيسٌ weak in mind or body, فَسْفَاسٌ very stupid ) ;—i.e. folly; but read פֶּשַׁע (𝔊 Theod Symm 𝔙 Di Bae Kau Du).
685 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Fat.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind ( Psalm 17:10 ).
686 Etymology dictionary, p. addle (v.).5
Popular in forming derogatory compounds 17c. and after, such as addle-headed "stupid, muddled" (1660s); addle-pated (1630s); addle-pate "stupid bungler" (c. 1600); addle-plot "spoil-sport, person who spoils any amusement" (1690s).
687 Etymology dictionary, p. anesthetic (adj.).2
… , tactless, stupid" (see anesthesia ). The noun meaning "agent that produces anesthesia" was first used in the modern sense 1848 by Scottish doctor James Young …
688 Etymology dictionary, p. asinine (adj.).2
c. 1600, "obstinate, stupid, offensively silly," from Latin asininus "stupid," literally "like an ass," from asinus "ass," also "dolt, blockhead" (see ass (n.1)). The literal sense in English is recorded from 1620s. Related: Asininity .
689 Etymology dictionary, p. ass (n.1).4
… and stupidity (hence ass-head, late 15c., etc.). To make an ass of oneself is from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1590). Asses' Bridge (c. 1780), from Latin Pons Asinorum, is fifth …
690 Etymology dictionary, p. ass-head (n.).2
also asshead, "stupid person, dullard," late 15c., asse hede, from ass (n.1) + head (n.). Related: Ass-headed .
691 Etymology dictionary, p. beast (n.).2
… or stupid man," from Old French beste "animal, wild beast," figuratively "fool, idiot" (11c., Modern French bête ), from Vulgar Latin *besta, from Latin bestia "beast, wild …
692 Etymology dictionary, p. besotted (adj.).2
"stupid, infatuated," 1570s, past-participle adjective from besot. Related: Besottedness .
693 Etymology dictionary, p. bestial (adj.).2
late 14c., "belonging to a beast," c. 1400, "having the qualities of a beast," from Old French bestial (13c.) "relating to animals; beast-like, stupid, foolish, brutal" and directly from Latin bestialis "like a beast," from bestia (see beast ).
694 Etymology dictionary, p. bimbo (n.).6
… a stupid or ineffectual man, a usage Damon Runyon traced to Philadelphia prize-fight slang. He wrote, that July, in a column printed in several newspapers, of …
695 Etymology dictionary, p. bird-brain (n.).2
also birdbrain, 1936, slang, "stupid person," also perhaps suggestive of flightiness, from bird (n.1) + brain (n.). Bird-brained is attested from 1910 and bird-witted from c. 1600.
696 Etymology dictionary, p. blasphemy (n.).3
… mind), stupid" also has been proposed; de Vaan suggests a connection with the root of Latin malus "bad, unpleasant" (from PIE root *mel- (3)). In Old Testament usage, the …
697 Etymology dictionary, p. blockhead (n.).2
also block-head, "stupid person," 1540s (implied in blockheaded ), from block (n.1) + head (n.); probably originally an image of the head-shaped oaken block used by hat-makers, though the insulting sense is equally old.
698 Etymology dictionary, p. blunder (v.).2
… a stupid mistake" is recorded by 1711. Related: Blundered; blundering .
699 Etymology dictionary, p. blunt (adj.).2
… .) for "stupid fellow."
700 Etymology dictionary, p. bluntness (n.).2
late 15c., "stupidity," also "dullness of an edge, state or quality of being blunt," from blunt (adj.) + -ness. The meaning "rudeness" is from c. 1600.