7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
noun a person who is not very bright
noun a person who evokes boredom
originFrom Middle English dullard, dollard, equivalent to dull + -ard (pejorative agent suffix). Compare Faroese døll (“dullard, good-for-nothing, blockhead”), Norwegian Nynorsk døl (“idiot, simpleton”).
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