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rattlebrain
English
Etymology
rattle +? brain
Noun
rattlebrain (plural rattlebrains)
- A rattlebrained person.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [1]
- a genial young fellow enough to look at, and something of a rattlebrain, to all appearance.
- 1962, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Slave, translated by Isaac Bachevis Singer and Cecil Hemley, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985, Part III, p. 297,
- My mother, peace be with her, when she called me a rattlebrain, was right.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [1]
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dimwit
English
Etymology
dim +? wit
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?mw?t/
Noun
dimwit (plural dimwits)
- (derogatory) A person who is deficient in intelligence.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:fool
- See Thesaurus:idiot
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See also
- halfwit
- nitwit
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