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Dolt vs Dope - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dolt and dope

is that dolt is a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard while dope is any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

As verbs the difference between dolt and dope

is that dolt is to behave foolishly while dope is to affect with drugs.

As an adjective dope is

great, amazing or extraordinary.

dolt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
  • * c. 1603 ,
  • O gull! O dolt ! As ignorant as dirt!
  • * Drayton
  • This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * doltish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To behave foolishly.
  • (Webster 1913)

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    dope

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
  • (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
  • (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,
  • (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
  • * 1953 , , Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer , Pantheon, 1981, p. 18
  • Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''
  • (uncountable, slang) Information.
  • * What's the latest dope on the stock market?
  • (countable, slang) A stupid person.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slap

    Verb

  • (slang) To affect with drugs.
  • To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
  • (electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
  • (slang) To use drugs.
  • Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
  • That party was dope !

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