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The Idiot by Evert Larock (1892). An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. 'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers.
The root word stupid, [1] which can serve as an adjective or noun, comes from the Latin verb stupere, for being numb or astonished, and is related to stupor. [2] In Roman culture, the stupidus was the professional fall guy in the theatrical mimes.
(Turkey) pronounced "John Kikirik", English person or Anglo-Saxons in general. Coño (Philippines) a wealthy, Anglophone Filipino raised and/or living in a gated community; originally used to refer to Spanish-Filipinos, regardless of socioeconomic status. Crusader (Islam) a person from a country where Christianity is dominant (the Americas and ...
Image credits: TrashyBinBag If you talk to a whole bunch of people, they’ll likely have different interpretations of what intelligence really is. For some, it’s all about high IQ scores, book ...
Shmendrik (Yiddish: שמענדריק), also rendered as schmendrick or shmendrick is a Yiddish word meaning a stupid person or a little hapless jerk ("a pathetic sad sack" [1]). Its origin is the name of a clueless mama's boy played by Sigmund Mogulesko in an 1877 comedy Shmendrik, oder di komishe Chaseneh ( Schmendrik or The Comical Wedding ...
The Daily Beast has mad social smarts. No one but Tina Brown, the site's masterful editor in chief would dare publish a survey of America's "smartest" and "dumbest" cities. But Brown thinks she ...
De idioot bij de vijver (The Idiot By the Pond, 1926, Frits Van den Berghe) Bronze statue of Milyo, a "village idiot" of Plovdiv. The village idiot is, in strict terms, a person locally known for ignorance or stupidity but is also a common term for a stereotypically silly or nonsensical person or stock character.
Well, put down that white flag and pick up your thinking cap, because we're about to introduce you to 25 mind-blowingly simple solutions to life's most irritatingly dumb problems. These aren't ...