stulty

English

Etymology

From Middle English stulty, probably from Latin stultus (“foolish”) + -y.

Adjective

stulty (comparative more stulty, superlative most stulty)

  1. (rare) Foolish; silly, stupid.
    • c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
      Shal fyre ben blamed for it brende a foole naturelly by his own stulty wytte in sterynge?
    • 2012, George R. R. Martin, Dreamsongs, volume 1, page 284:
      " […] I was a Jamie too, before that, and Port Jamison is a stulty, priggy town on a planet that's the same."
    • 2020, Robin Langstaff-French, Brothers, Lift Your Voices, page 180:
      Dearest, I love you. I miss you. I count the stulty moments, “creeping in their petty pace", till next I see and am with you... […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stulty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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