טָפַשׁ (b. h.) to be covered with fat; to be inaccessible, dull, obdurate, stupid (cmp. Lat. pinguis).
Hithpa. - הִטַּפֵּשׁ to grow dull. Ber. 63ᵇ מִטַּפְּשִׁים they become dull; Taan. 7ᵃ; Macc. 10ᵃ
Pu. - טוּפָּשׁ , part. מְטוּפָּשׁ (denom. of טִפֵּשׁ) decried as a fool, made sport of. Sifré Deut. 309; Yalk. ib. 942 (corresp. to נבל a. לא חכם, Deut. XXXII, 6) מנוולים ומְטוּפָּשִׁים disgraced and ridiculed as fools.