N. ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, # moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant

Adj. bookless, shallow, ignorant

Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits"

N. sage, wise man, genius, master mind, master spirit of # the age, longhead, thinker, intellectual, longhair, authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus apollo, solon, solomon, nestor, magi, "second daniel." man of learning, expert, wizard, wiseacre, bigwig, know-it-all, poor man's einstein

Adj. venerable, reverenced, emeritus

Phr. barba tenus sapientes

N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, tom noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot- poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, gothamite, lummox, rube, men of boeotia, wise men of gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity) 503, greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror

Phr. fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangent, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia

N. humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster, bel esprit, life of the party, wit-snapper, wit- cracker, wit-worm, joker, jester, joe miller|, drole de corps, gaillard, spark, bon diable, practical joker, buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown, wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley, motley fool, pantaloon, gypsy, jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy, wiseacre, wise guy, smartass, fool, zany, madcap, pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier, persifleur, 2, discriminative affections