Dolt vs Polt - What's the difference?
dolt | polt |
(pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
* c. 1603 ,
* Drayton
A hard knock.
*1782:' , ''Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress'' - If he know'd I'd got you the knife, he'd go nigh to give me a good ' polt of the head.
(obsolete, rare) A pestle.
*1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 138:
*:Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt , lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.
As nouns the difference between dolt and polt
is that dolt is (pejorative) a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard while polt is a hard knock.As a verb dolt
is (obsolete) to behave foolishly.dolt
English
Noun
(en noun)- O gull! O dolt ! As ignorant as dirt!
- This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt .
