dimwit

dimwit

One who is stupid or foolish. Geez, he keeps pulling on a door that's clearly marked "push"—what a dimwit.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dimwit

(ˈdɪmwɪt)
n. an oaf; a dullard. (Also a rude term of address.) Oh, Dave, you can be such a dimwit!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • dinghead
  • blockhead
  • dipwad
  • dingleberry
  • doofus
  • dingus
  • dingy
  • dingbat
  • ding-a-ling
  • beetlebrain
References in periodicals archive
And dimwit Adam finds himself an unwitting accomplice to yet another crime tonight when they're both involved in a hit and run.
And dimwit Adam, pictured right, finds himself an unwitting accomplice to yet another crime tonight when they're both involved in a hit and run.
MacIntosh, 39 - dimwit Keith in The Office - plays a hen-pecked hubby called Brian who cannot satisfy his wife Dorothy.
I TRUST that the parents of dimwit girls - low-achievers all - who trill they want to be famous, will draw their daughters' short attention span to the story of the troubled Kerry Katona, the Iceland advert bint.
Stealing a marked police car from outside a station is thick enough, but the dimwit compounded his idiocy by then crashing it into a tree.
The astute pensioner instantly became suspicious and told the doorstep dimwit he wanted to see some form of identification.
The Cardiff-born athlete has won almost everything possible, yet even on routine occasions the glint in his eye still puts you in mind of the optical apparatus of a peckish tiger shark spotting a dimwit swimmer skipping blithely seawards past "Beware of Sharks" signs.
Heartbroken at her blunder, Kerry drowns her sorrows and ends up kissing Sam, leading the dimwit to think they're now a couple.
AND The Wright Stuff guest Chris Bryant revealing C5's pre-briefing notes for its debate on grammar: "It said 'Whats the best way to correct children' with no question mark at the end and no apostrophe on the 'whats'." Dimwit's.
Stallone said he was frustrated by being stereotyped as a bit of a dimwit. He said: "I wrote every word of the Rocky films, but people assume you are Rocky.
SURELY any dimwit could have told our far-sighted leaders that when push comes to shove foreign companies will prioritise their own 'home' customers!
Dimwit Bush weighed in too: "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government.
Does the dimwit who drew the 'space age vehicle' think central driving and no windscreen wipers good for overtaking or that external struts make vehicle washing easy?
First a dimwit senior Conservative MP launches a secret smear campaign against Better Together leader Alistair Darling over the job he is doing in convincing Scots to stay in the UK.
But, mostly thanks to the accident prone dimwit Syd (Clarke), the pair, who - surprise, surprise - fall into their bad old ways, look about as likely to succeed as master criminals as a Norris Cole and Roy Cropper partnership in Coronation Street.