I looked up 'numskull' and it is an accepted spelling. From Wordnik.com. [Cake Writing 201: "Congratulations"] Reference
But if "numskull" is an imprecise description of the president, it is not altogether inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
"What are you waiting for, you numskull?" he cried. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
(You probably know a numskull or two who's proved this.). From Wordnik.com. [Ten Tips for Hunting Stubborn Spring Turkeys] Reference
And maybe Fang had been born yesterday and was a gullible numskull. From Wordnik.com. [Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports]
"Clues, numskull," Jake said, turning back to me with his mouth full. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
How would you like him to be a subservient old numskull, like that old. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
What this country needs by a way of a president is a numskull like you. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Palin Tells Constitution-Loving Tea Partiers: We Don’t Need A President Who Is A ‘Constitutional Law Professor’] Reference
TURAN: "Clash of the Titans" is also burdened by a numskull plot notion. From Wordnik.com. [3D Clashes With 'Titan's' Remake] Reference
“Nesvitski, Nesvitski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from behind him. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
They are pipsqueak and numskull and later I will have a couple of bonus words. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Anyone who has not come to that conclusion as of yet is a brain dead numskull. From Wordnik.com. [Blitzer: Most explosive charges I can remember] Reference
"In other words," the man said, finally realizing what a numskull he was talking to. From Wordnik.com. [Vulgarity Is The New Black] Reference
Not even Winger would have the numskull nerve to go wandering around the Bohdan Zhibak. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
Except when we habe numskull lightweights come by and give us 7th grade lectures on wikipedia. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Wikipedia: Some Concluding Thoughts and an Invitation:] Reference
I'll look elsewhere and get back to you on this word. numskull: 1717, from num see numb + skull. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
"Oh, Jim, Jim, what a darling old numskull you are!". From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Then how, at the bidding of a scurvy, envious numskull of. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
I'll go hunt up that old blockhead, that absurd numskull!. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
"Why, you numskull, while you were peepin 'all that time.". From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Beast] Reference
"I've taken a notion into my old numskull," observed Silver. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure Island] Reference
For a simple numskull of a shepherd are so many words necessary?. From Wordnik.com. [Droll Stories — Volume 1] Reference
Go on, go on, numskull; you will do your own business effectually. From Wordnik.com. [The Blunderer] Reference
"It's alwayth the numskull hath the most conceit," said the Deacon. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
The message was here all the time -- that numskull Heinrich forgot it. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference
That cook was the biggest numskull that ever drawed the breath of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
You know, gentlemen, what megrims I get, and what a numskull mine is. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
I lay you'll be the Methusalem-numskull of creation before ever I ask you. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
"Nesvitski, Nesvitski! you numskull!" came a hoarse voice from behind him. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Deadest numskull I ever saw -- ain't even got sense enough to load up a stove. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
Every numskull in Egypt wagged his beard over it; I could hear the chatter myself. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Burlesques] Reference
There is the chance, of course, that he might turn out a numskull, and be only King. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892] Reference
"I'll take charge of this, Captain Dobson," he brusquely informed the red-faced numskull. From Wordnik.com. [Raw Gold A Novel] Reference
Barque again, and this time turns round on him: "What are you doing there, dung-guts, numskull?". From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
Boots was no better than a numskull anyway, and how could he hope to succeed where they had failed. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Folk and Fairies] Reference
"Wait till you have one first, sir, and you may make him as great a numskull as you plase, Master.". From Wordnik.com. [The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
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