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Word Meanings - HALF-CRACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half-demented; half-witted.

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  • WITTS
    Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.
  • WITTED
    Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.
  • DEMENTED
    Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.
  • WITTY
    1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem,
  • WITTINESS
    The quality of being witty.
  • WITTOLLY
    Like a wittol; cuckoldly. Shak.
  • WITTINGLY
    Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.
  • DEMENT
    Demented; dementate. J. H. Newman.
  • DEMENTATE
    Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.
  • WITTICASTER
    A witling. Milton.
  • DEMENTIA
    Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
  • WITTILY
    In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden.
  • WITTOL
    The wheatear. 2. A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. Shak.
  • DEMENTATION
    The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.
  • WITTICISM
    A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.
  • WITTIFIED
    Possessed of wit; witty. R. North.
  • DISWITTED
    Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton.
  • TWITTERING
    1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
  • SODDEN-WITTED
    Heavy; dull. Shak.
  • DECIDEMENT
    Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
  • UNWITTING
    Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant. -- Un*wit"ting*ly, adv.
  • HALF-WITTED
    Weak in intellect; silly.
  • TWITTER
    One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
  • TWITTLE-TWATTLE
    Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.
  • FAT-WITTED
    Dull; stupid. Shak.
  • DEGRADEMENT
    Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
  • SLOW-WITTED
    Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.
  • BEEF-WITTED
    Stupid; dull. Shak.
  • QUICK-WITTED
    Having ready wit Shak.
  • INCOMMODEMENT
    The act of incommoded. Cheyne.

 

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