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801 Etymology dictionary, p. mutt (n.).4
… of stupid men, affable losers," or to one tall (Mutt) and one short (Jeff), from the comic strip characters from the heyday of the newspaper funny pages, Augustus …
802 Etymology dictionary, p. muttonhead (n.).2
"dull or stupid person," 1803, American English, from mutton + head (n.).
803 Etymology dictionary, p. muzzy (adj.).2
"confused, dazed, stupid, tipsy," 1720s, perhaps from mossy, or from dialectal mosey (adj.) "moldy, hazy; stupefied with drink, dull, stupid."
804 Etymology dictionary, p. Neanderthal (adj.).3
… , brutish, stupid person from 1926. They were extinct by about 35,000 years ago. That they interbred with modern humans was long debated and denied, but DNA analysis …
805 Etymology dictionary, p. nerd (n.).2
… nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an alteration of nut. The word turns up in a Dr. Seuss book from 1950 ("If I Ran the Zoo"), which may have contributed to its rise …
806 Etymology dictionary, p. nice (adj.).2
… ; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (from PIE root *ne- "not") + stem of scire "to know" (see science …
807 Etymology dictionary, p. nicety (n.).2
… , "folly, stupidity," a sense now obsolete, from Old French niceté "foolishness, childishness, simplicity," from nice "silly" (see nice ). It underwent a sense evolution …
808 Etymology dictionary, p. nitwit (n.).2
also nit-wit, "stupid person," by 1914, American English slang, probably from nit "nothing," from dialectal German or Yiddish, from Middle Low German (see nix (n.)) + wit (n.). Related: Nitwitted; nitwittery .
809 Etymology dictionary, p. noob (n.).2
… or stupidity.
810 Etymology dictionary, p. noodle (n.2).2
"head," early 15c., nodel, "head, back of the head," perhaps from Latin nodulus (see nodule ). The meaning "simpleton, stupid person" (1753) probably is derived from it. Noodle-thatcher was old slang for "wig-maker" (1716).
811 Etymology dictionary, p. numbnuts (n.).2
stupid or ineffectual person, by 1971, U.S. slang, from numb (adj.) + nuts "testicles;" with suggestion of impotence.
812 Etymology dictionary, p. numbskull (n.).2
"dull-witted or stupid person," 1717, numskull, from num, old spelling of numb (adj.) + skull. Numskulled (adj.) is attested from 1706.
813 Etymology dictionary, p. oafish (adj.).2
"like an oaf, stupid, dull," 1610s, from oaf + -ish. Related: Oafishly; oafishness .
814 Etymology dictionary, p. obtuse (adj.).2
… of "stupid, not acutely sensitive or perceptive" is by c. 1500. In geometry, in reference to a plane angle greater than a right angle," 1560s. Related: Obtusely; obtuseness …
815 Etymology dictionary, p. oxymoron (n.).2
… ") + mōros "stupid" (see moron ). The word itself is an illustration of the thing. Now often used loosely to mean "contradiction in terms." Related: Oxymoronic .
816 Etymology dictionary, p. pig-headed (adj.).2
also pigheaded; 1610s, "having a head resembling a pig;" 1788 as "stupid and obstinate, unreasonably set in mind;" see pig (n.1) + -headed. Usually, but not always, figurative.
817 Etymology dictionary, p. pillock (n.).2
"the penis," 1530s (mid-13c. as a surname), dialectal variant of Middle English pil-cok, pillicock "the penis" (see cock (n.3)). Meaning "stupid person" is attested by 1967.
818 Etymology dictionary, p. poop (n.2).2
… .). Meaning "stupid or dull person" is from 1915, but this is perhaps short for nincompoop. Pooper-scooper is attested from 1970.
819 Etymology dictionary, p. pothead (n.).2
also pot-head "chronic marijuana user," 1967, from pot (n.2) + head (n.). Earlier it meant "stupid person" (1530s), from pot (n.1).
820 Etymology dictionary, p. preposterous (adj.).3
… , ridiculous, stupid, absurd." The literal meaning "reversed in order or arrangement, having that last which ought to be first" (1550s) is now obsolete in English …