an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
n. someone who behaves stupidly. (Also a term of address.) : Please stop acting like a nitwit all the time.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Another nitwit cog in the wheel trying to make it palatable, and for you suckers out there, don't worry it'll get better.
Now it seems you righties want him to be a secret nitwit as well.
Chalmers is a nitwit and an opportunist who steals ideas from others.
Such a nitwit conspiracy among a large group of scientists would have a half-life of about three seconds tops.