nitwit

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈnɪtwɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A scatterbrained or stupid person. informal
    — If you don't remember you are a nitwit. If you do answer, well, you know what the penalty is for perjury.

词形变化

nitwits plural

词源

First attested in the 1910s in the US Northeast. Likely from German nit, dialect form of nichts (“nothing”), or Yiddish ניט (nit), dialect form of נישט (nisht, “no”), although some dictionaries give the alternative etymology nit (“louse egg; something very small”) + wit.
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