What is Numpty?
1.
Scottish usage:
a) Someone who (sometimes unwittingly) by speech or action demonstrates a lack of knowledge or misconception of a particular subject or situation to the amusement of others.
b) A good humoured admonition, a term of endearment
c) A reckless, absent minded or unwise person
a) "No. That wisnae wit she meant, ya big numpty!"
b) i.e. "Silly billy", "You big dafty"
c) "That numpty's driving with no lights on!"
2.
A person who never has or never will have a f*ing clue what he is doing
Bobby Gould
3.
An idiot, a silly person
"You're going to look like a right numpty."
4.
a scottish term, short for numb-skull.
idiot
pratt
wally
" away n'shite, ya fuckin' Numpty "
5.
Numpty first surfaced on the terraces of west of Scotland football grounds, many many years ago. A player who couldn't hit a cow's arse with a shovel would be a f***ing numpty.
"Awww Jimmy you f************ing numpty!! You couldnae score wi' ma' sister!"
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6.
Dialect, chiefly scots. A bumbling fool or one who is intellectually challanged.
(plural : numpties)
"they numpties couldnae organise a pissup in a brewery."
In reference to MSPs( members of scottish parliment)
7.
a person so stupid they are incapable of understanding the simpliest of things
John Hall is a Numpty for his festive headwear
