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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nitwit/ˈnɪtwɪt/

▶noun informal a silly or foolish person.

– derivatives
nitwitted adjective,
nitwittedness noun,
nitwittery noun.

– origin early 20th cent.: appar. from nit1 + wit1.

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