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jackass
English
Alternative forms
- jack-ass
Etymology
From jack +? ass
Pronunciation
Noun
jackass (countable and uncountable, plural jackasses)
- A male donkey.
- Synonym: jack
- (chiefly US) A foolish or stupid person.
- Synonyms: fool, idiot, dink, dope, buffoon
- (chiefly US) An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
- Synonyms: jerk, asshole, bastard, bitch
- 2004 King of the Hill (TV, season 8.8)
- Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.
- (US, slang, uncountable) A kind of bootleg liquor.
- Richard Mendelson, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 82)
- As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'
- Vivienne Sosnowski, When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 110)
- By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […]
- Richard Mendelson, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 82)
Derived terms
Translations
Proper noun
jackass
- (poker slang) a jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity
Verb
jackass (third-person singular simple present jackasses, present participle jackassing, simple past and past participle jackassed)
- (rare) to behave very obnoxiously
See also
- Jackass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- Rich McComas (2004-12-05) , “Holdem Secrets - 400+ Pocket Cards”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?[1], retrieved 2008-08-07
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dunderhead
English
Etymology
dunder +? head
Noun
dunderhead (plural dunderheads)
- (somewhat dated) A stupid person; a dunce.
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 6:
- You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses!
- 1915, Basil King, The Side Of The Angels, ch. 3:
- Poor old fellow's a dunderhead. That's where it is in a nutshell. Never could make a living. . . . Nice old chap as ever lived. Only impractical, dreamy. Gentle as a sheep—and no more capable of running that big, expensive plant than a motherly old ewe.
- 2004 May 23, Maureen Dowd, "Bay of Goats," New York Times (retrieved 29 Nov 2017):
- Cheney & Company swooned over Mr. Chalabi because he was telling them what they wanted to hear. . . . A half-dozen dunderheads who thought they knew everything assumed they could control Mr. Chalabi and use him as the instrument of their utopian fantasies.
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 6:
Alternative forms
- dinderhead (Southwestern England)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:fool
Derived terms
- dunderheaded
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