Witling

n.

1.

A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witing perished in the forming. - Pope. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! - Goldsmith.

Boeotian, Gothamite, banana, block, burlesquer, caricaturist, clod, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, epigrammatist, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, gowk, humorist, ironist, jester, jobbernowl, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lackwit, lamebrain, lampooner, lightweight, looby, loon, madcap, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, parodist, prankster, punner, punster, put, quipster, reparteeist, satirist, smart ass, stupid, thickwit, wag, wagwit, wise fool, wise guy, wiseacre, wisecracker, wisehead, wiseling, wisenheimer, wit, zany