different between fathead vs cretin

English

Etymology

fat +? head

Noun

fathead (plural fatheads)

1. (derogatory) An idiot; a fool.

2. A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
3. A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.
4. A blobfish, Psychrolutes microporos
5. Any of several species of fish of the genus Cubiceps

Synonyms

• (derogatory): dunce, imbecile, lout, nincompoop, see also Thesaurus:idiot

Antonyms

• (derogatory): genius

Translations

English

Etymology

From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Vulgar Latin christi?nus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??t?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?i?t?n/, /?k??t?n/
• Homophone: Cretan (one pronunciation)

Noun

cretin (plural cretins)

1. (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]
2. (by extension, derogatory) An idiot.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idiot

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Cretinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Cretinism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• centri-, cinter, citren, crinet

Romanian

Etymology

From French crétin

Noun

cretin m (plural cretini)

1. idiot

Declension