Definition of "underwit" in English

noun

1. An underwitted person; a nitwit.

   • c. 1699-1736, Jonathan Swift, Of the Education of Ladies That in the mean time, her household affairs, and the care of her children, will be wholly laid aside; her toilet will be crowded with all the under-wits, where the conversation will pass in criticising on the last play or poem that comes out […]