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half-wit

  [half-wit, hahf-]
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–noun
1. a person who is feeble-minded.
2. a person who is foolish or senseless; dunderhead.
Origin:
1670–80

Synonyms:
2. blockhead, dolt, fool, nitwit, dope, dummy, dimwit.
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half-wit   (hāf'wĭt', häf'-)
n.   Slang
A foolish or stupid person.
half'-wit'ted adj., half'-wit'ted·ly adv., half'-wit'ted·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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half-wit 
1678, originally "a would-be wit whose abilities are mediocre;" sense of "simpleton" (one lacking all his wits) is first attested 1755.
"Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light,
We scarce could know they live, but that they bite."
[Dryden, "All for Love"]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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