"underwit" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From under- + wit.",
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          "text": "c. 1699-1736, Jonathan Swift, Of the Education of Ladies\nThat in the mean time, her household affairs, and the care of her children, will be wholly laid aside; her toilet will be crowded with all the under-wits, where the conversation will pass in criticising on the last play or poem that comes out […]"
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          "ref": "1832, Mary Russell Mitford, Lights and shadows of American life",
          "text": "\"Well,\" said the captain, \"then we must come Yankee over them, and I've notions enough here to baffle a nation of such underwits.\"",
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        "An underwitted person; a nitwit."
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  "etymology_text": "From under- + wit.",
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          "text": "c. 1699-1736, Jonathan Swift, Of the Education of Ladies\nThat in the mean time, her household affairs, and the care of her children, will be wholly laid aside; her toilet will be crowded with all the under-wits, where the conversation will pass in criticising on the last play or poem that comes out […]"
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