fat-witted

[ fat-wit-id ]

adjective

1. stupid; dull-witted.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fat-witted¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Potluck cooks are “radiant fat-witted women with steaming red arms.”

From New York Times

Anyone who still retains any trace of the old-fashioned notion, which used to be unfortunately a commonplace among English speaking people, that the medieval Monks were unworthy of their great calling, and that the monasteries were the homes of lazy, fat-witted men whose only object in taking up the life was to secure an easy means of livelihood, will be thoroughly undeceived, if he but read with some attention the stories of Louis' relations to the monasteries.

From Project Gutenberg

Beautiful as her face was, and though there was a smile on it, it looked just as wicked and mischievous as the ugliest serpent that ever was seen; and fat-witted as the voyagers had made themselves, they began to suspect that they had fallen into the power of an evil-minded enchantress.

From Project Gutenberg

Who shall join with debauched lordlings and fat-witted prelates in ridicule of Anabaptist levellers and dippers, after rising from the perusal of "Pilgrim's Progress?"

From Project Gutenberg

But I must make the dismal confession that my friends are mostly a very fat-witted sort of fellows.

From Project Gutenberg