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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1837
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¶WANWIT, n. A simple-minded or mentally defective person.Rnf. 1837 Crawfurd MSS. XI. 321:
Her brother David was rather a wanwit or sillie-daft man.
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