half-witted
adjEtymology From half- + witted.
1
Having low intelligence.
- "These girls were a little queer, to be sure, almost half-witted, but that came from their having seen fairies," he added, with an indignant look at the squire.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 264:
- Derived terms
- half-wittedly