underwit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"c. 1699-1736, Jonathan Swift, Of the Education of Ladies That in the mean time, her household affairs, and the care of her children, will be wholly laid aside; her toilet will be crowded with all the under-wits, where the conversation will pass in criticising on the last play or poem that comes out […]"
""Well," said the captain, "then we must come Yankee over them, and I've notions enough here to baffle a nation of such underwits.""

From under- + wit.

underwits (plural) under-wit (alternative)

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