Dolt vs Dope - What's the difference?
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(pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
* c. 1603 ,
* Drayton
(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
(uncountable, slang) Information.
* What's the latest dope on the stock market?
(countable, slang) A stupid person.
(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.
(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
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)- O gull! O dolt ! As ignorant as dirt!
- This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* doltishAnagrams
* ----dope
English
Noun
- 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.''
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slapVerb
Adjective
(er)- That party was dope !