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dumb ox. When he was a young monk in Germany (ca. 1250) other members of his Dominican order thought St. Thomas Aquinas was stupid—perhaps because they weren’t in- telligent enough to understand what he said. They dubbed him the Dumb Ox, which has become synonymous for “a stupid person.” Lummox, an Americanism first recorded in 1825, ap- parently derives from dumb ox, perhaps combined with lum- bering or another word suggesting clumsiness. See dunce. |