different between numskull vs dope

English

Alternative forms

• numbskull

Etymology

numb (“deadened”) +? skull

Noun

numskull (plural numskulls)

1. (derogatory) A dunce, mentally dull or stupid person.
2. (derogatory) A person who refuses to learn or grow mentally.

   That numskull will never learn how to compose a letter.

3. A traditional name for a fool who serves as the butt of jokes about stupidity.

Synonyms

• airhead
• bubblehead
• thickhead
• See also Thesaurus:fool
• See also Thesaurus:idiot

Derived terms

• numpty, numptie

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

English

Etymology

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *d?pen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijan?.

Sense “narcotic drug” originally from viscous opium pastes, “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Related to English dip and German taufen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [d??p]
• (US) IPA^(key): [do?p]
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

1. (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
2. (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
3. (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
4. (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin. [from late 19th c.]
5. (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonym: scoop
6. (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
7. (countable, slang) A stupid person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
8. (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.

Derived terms

• dope fiend
• dope house
• dope man
• dope sheet
• dope slap/dope-slap
• dope story
• dopeless

Translations

Verb

dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)

1. (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.

   Synonym: administer
2. (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
3. (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
4. (intransitive, now chiefly sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
5. (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

Derived terms

• dope up

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)

1. (slang) Amazing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awesome

Translations

References

Anagrams

• deop, depo, op-ed, oped, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, pode, poed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?p?]

Verb

dope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen

French

Etymology

From English dope

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/

Noun

dope f (plural dopes)

1. (informal) illicit drug, narcotic

Verb

dope

1. first-person singular present indicative of doper
2. third-person singular present indicative of doper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doper
5. second-person singular imperative of doper

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?do?.p?]

Verb

dope

1. inflection of dopen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Ido

Etymology

From dop +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do.pe/

Adverb

dope

1. back, behind, aback

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dope/, [?d?o.pe]

Verb

dope

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dopar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dopar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dopar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dopar.