stulty
English
Etymology
From Middle English stulty, probably from Latin stultus (“foolish”) + -y.
Adjective
stulty (comparative more stulty, superlative most stulty)
- (rare) Foolish; silly, stupid.
- c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
- Shal fyre ben blamed for it brende a foole naturelly by his own stulty wytte in sterynge?
- 2012, George R. R. Martin, Dreamsongs, volume 1, page 284:
- " […] I was a Jamie too, before that, and Port Jamison is a stulty, priggy town on a planet that's the same."
- 2020, Robin Langstaff-French, Brothers, Lift Your Voices, page 180:
- Dearest, I love you. I miss you. I count the stulty moments, “creeping in their petty pace", till next I see and am with you... […]
References
- “stulty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.