Usually means: Person with below average intelligence.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word half-wit:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-wit: Merriam-Webster
  2. half-wit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. half-wit: Vocabulary.com
  4. half-wit: Wordnik
  5. half-wit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. half-wit: Wiktionary
  7. half-wit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. half-wit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. half-wit: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Half-wit, half-wit: Dictionary.com
  11. half-wit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Half-Wit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Half-wit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. half-wit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. half-wit: Rhymezone
  16. Half-wit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. half-wit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. half-wit: FreeDictionary.org
  19. half-wit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. half-wit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-wit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-wit: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-wit: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A stupid or inept person.

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