Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "saai" is 'n persoon wat traag is om te verstaan of nie intelligensie het nie; 'n dom of dwase persoon. Dit kan ook verwys na iemand wat vervelig of oninteressant is.
The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.
I have just stopped to review this prattle you must now think me a dullard.
They were welcome to think he was a bumbling dullard.
Thou, who, to my thinking, art beyond all doubt a dullard, without early rising or night watching or taking any trouble, with the mere breath of knight-errantry that has breathed upon thee, seest thyself without more ado governor of an island, as though it were a mere matter of course.
