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681 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. פַּשׁ.2
† פַּשׁ n. [ m. ] Jb 35:15 si vera l. from √ פשׁשׁ ( cf. Arabic فَسِيسٌ weak in mind or body, فَسْفَاسٌ very stupid ) ;—i.e. folly; but read פֶּשַׁע (𝔊 Theod Symm 𝔙 Di Bae Kau Du).
682 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Fat.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind ( Psalm 17:10 ).
683 Etymology dictionary, p. addle (v.).5
Popular in forming derogatory compounds 17c. and after, such as addle-headed "stupid, muddled" (1660s); addle-pated (1630s); addle-pate "stupid bungler" (c. 1600); addle-plot "spoil-sport, person who spoils any amusement" (1690s).
684 Etymology dictionary, p. anesthetic (adj.).2
… , tactless, stupid" (see anesthesia ). The noun meaning "agent that produces anesthesia" was first used in the modern sense 1848 by Scottish doctor James Young …
685 Etymology dictionary, p. asinine (adj.).2
c. 1600, "obstinate, stupid, offensively silly," from Latin asininus "stupid," literally "like an ass," from asinus "ass," also "dolt, blockhead" (see ass (n.1)). The literal sense in English is recorded from 1620s. Related: Asininity .
686 Etymology dictionary, p. ass (n.1).4
… and stupidity (hence ass-head, late 15c., etc.). To make an ass of oneself is from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1590). Asses' Bridge (c. 1780), from Latin Pons Asinorum, is fifth …
687 Etymology dictionary, p. ass-head (n.).2
also asshead, "stupid person, dullard," late 15c., asse hede, from ass (n.1) + head (n.). Related: Ass-headed .
688 Etymology dictionary, p. beast (n.).2
… or stupid man," from Old French beste "animal, wild beast," figuratively "fool, idiot" (11c., Modern French bête ), from Vulgar Latin *besta, from Latin bestia "beast, wild …
689 Etymology dictionary, p. besotted (adj.).2
"stupid, infatuated," 1570s, past-participle adjective from besot. Related: Besottedness .
690 Etymology dictionary, p. bestial (adj.).2
late 14c., "belonging to a beast," c. 1400, "having the qualities of a beast," from Old French bestial (13c.) "relating to animals; beast-like, stupid, foolish, brutal" and directly from Latin bestialis "like a beast," from bestia (see beast ).
691 Etymology dictionary, p. bimbo (n.).6
… a stupid or ineffectual man, a usage Damon Runyon traced to Philadelphia prize-fight slang. He wrote, that July, in a column printed in several newspapers, of …
692 Etymology dictionary, p. bird-brain (n.).2
also birdbrain, 1936, slang, "stupid person," also perhaps suggestive of flightiness, from bird (n.1) + brain (n.). Bird-brained is attested from 1910 and bird-witted from c. 1600.
693 Etymology dictionary, p. blasphemy (n.).3
… mind), stupid" also has been proposed; de Vaan suggests a connection with the root of Latin malus "bad, unpleasant" (from PIE root *mel- (3)). In Old Testament usage, the …
694 Etymology dictionary, p. blockhead (n.).2
also block-head, "stupid person," 1540s (implied in blockheaded ), from block (n.1) + head (n.); probably originally an image of the head-shaped oaken block used by hat-makers, though the insulting sense is equally old.
695 Etymology dictionary, p. blunder (v.).2
… a stupid mistake" is recorded by 1711. Related: Blundered; blundering .
696 Etymology dictionary, p. blunt (adj.).2
… .) for "stupid fellow."
697 Etymology dictionary, p. bluntness (n.).2
late 15c., "stupidity," also "dullness of an edge, state or quality of being blunt," from blunt (adj.) + -ness. The meaning "rudeness" is from c. 1600.
698 Etymology dictionary, p. bonehead (n.).2
"stupid person," 1908, from bone (n.) + head (n.). Compare blockhead, meathead. Bone-headed "ignorant" is from 1903. Earlier it was used in reference to types of primitive spears or harpoons.
699 Etymology dictionary, p. boob (n.).2
"stupid person," 1909, American English slang, perhaps a shortening of booby. For the "woman's breast" sense, see boobs. Mencken seems to have coined booboisie (1922).
700 Etymology dictionary, p. booby (n.).2
"stupid person," 1590s, from Spanish bobo "stupid person," also used of various ungainly seabirds, probably from Latin balbus "stammering," from an imitative root (see barbarian ).