JOULTER ADJ. clumsily stupid ...1854 rare ETYMOLOGY deduced from joulter-head (jolter-head - a stupid head, a stupid person, a blockhead) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1854 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...He seems to have a collection of these puns (and where or how he gets even them is a puzzle), stowed away in his joulter jaws, which he instantly shoots out upon you," added the doctor, "as I have seen a baboon do, pelting the company with his cheek preserved quids, after he had learnt the tobacco accomplishment ..." From: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Oct. 1817-1905 July, 1854 - Letter to Eusebius. Riddles.
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