IDIOCY – nouns
– DUNCERY behaviour or qualities characteristic of a person who is stupid or slow to learn or understand; stupidity, idiocy …1615
– DUNCICALITY the state of being a dunce; stupidity, idiocy …1790
– DUNCISHNESS the state of being a dunce; stupidity, idiocy …1805
– FATUISM idiocy, mental imbecility, dementia …1884
– FATUITY * idiocy, mental imbecility, dementia …1621-51
– GABY folly, idiocy …B1900 Eng. dial.
– IDIOTACY †* idiocy …1583
– IDIOTRY idiocy, folly …1887 Sc.
– INNOCENCE idiocy, weakness of intellect …1862 Eng. dial.
– WOOBLES feeblemindedness, foolishness, idiocy …1933 Amer. dial.
IDIOM, IDIOMATIC – nouns
– IDIOMACY * idiomatic quality …1813
– IDIOMATICISM † an idiomatic expression …
– IDIOMATISM †* an idiomatic expression …1771
– IDIOMATOLOGY †* a collection of idioms …1690
IDIOSYNCRASY – adjectives
– IDIOSYNCRASICAL †* pert. to idiosyncrasy …1633
idiosyncrasy – nouns
– IDIOCRASY † an idiosyncrasy …1681
– IDIOSYNCRASIS †* an idiosyncrasy …1654
– PARTICULARITY a personal or private trait or characteristic; an idiosyncrasy; a detail, a particular …1783 Sc.
– TICK a whim, a fancy; a peculiar habit or notion; an idiosyncrasy …1896
IDIOT – person
– ALEC, ALECK, ALICK an idiot …1919 Aust. sl.
– ASSHEAD a stupid or foolish person; an idiot …a1500 colloq.
– BABBO an idiot; a useless underling …Bk1997 mobsters’ usage
– BAKE a fool, an idiot …1860 US sl.
– BAKEBRAIN (derogatory) someone with limited or damaged mental faculties; a fool, an idiot; a stupid person …1949 US sl.
– BAKEHEAD a fool, an idiot; a stupid person; an insane or crazy person …1949 US sl.
– BALONEY an oafish, stupid, or clumsy person; an idiot; a worthless person …1920 US sl.
– BALONEY-BENDER one who habitually flatters or talks nonsense; an idiot …1926 Amer. sl.
– BANANAHEAD a simpleton, a fool, an idiot, a stupid person …1949 US sl.
– BARNEY a stupid man; an idiot …Bk1993 surfing sl.
– BAVIAN * (derogatory) a fool, an idiot …1797
– BEALS a fool, an idiot, an unsophisticated person; a displeasing person …a2001 sl.
– BESSY an ill-mannered, romping, or bad-tempered woman or girl; a light-headed girl; an idiot …Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BIG BLAH a fool; an idiot …1927 US sl.
– BIG BOY a foolish, reckless, devil-may-care young man; a loveable idiot …1920s US Black sl.
– BLAH a fool, an idiot …1923 US sl.
– BLOCK a fool, an idiot, a stupid person …M16 sl.
– BOGAN a fool, an idiot …Aust. sl.
– BONEHEAD an idiot …1908 US sl.
– BURG a fool, an idiot; an unpleasant person …1980s S. Afr.
– CAKEHEAD an idiot; a fool …1998 UK sl.
– CAPON an idiot, a dull, stupid person; a term of reproach …1542
– COUGH DROP an idiotic person …1895 sl.
– CRATEHEAD a fool, an idiot …Bk2004 sl.
– D.A. a fool, an idiot (Dumb-Ass) …1970s US campus sl.
– DAFT-HEAD a silly fellow; an idiot; a fool …Bk1873 Eng. dial.
– DAFTIE, DAFTY an idiot, an imbecile; a madman …1868 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– DALCOP an idiot …1858 Eng. dial.
– DICKEY-DIDO, DICKY-DIDO an idiot; a fool…19C Brit. sl.
– DIMELOW a fool, an idiot …1900 UK sl.
– DINELO, DINELOW a fool, an idiot …1900 UK sl.
– DIPSTICK an inept fool; an idiot; a jerk; a stupid or contemptible person; an oaf …1963 US sl.
– DIZZARD † a foolish, stupid, or silly fellow; an idiot, a blockhead; a weak-minded person …1547 obs. or arch.
– DOITARD a simpleton, a fool, an idiot …1860 Eng. dial.
– DOITY a fool, simpleton, idiot …19C Eng. dial.
– DRONGO an idiot, a simpleton, a stupid person …1953 Aust. sl.
– DUNCEHEAD (derogatory) a stupid, inept, or dim-witted person; an idiot …1749
– DUNDERHEAD (depreciative) a stupid, slow-witted person; an idiot; a fool …1630
– DUNNY † a stupid, dim-witted person; an idiot …1709
– EDDY an idiot …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EGGHEAD a fool, a dolt, an idiot …1941 US sl.
– FANNY an idiot …2000s sl.
– FARTKNOCKER one who does not know what they are talking about, an idiot …1950s US sl.
– FAT-BRAIN a fool, an idiot; often used affectionately as well as derogatorily …L16 sl.
– FAT-HEAD a fool, an idiot; often used affectionately as well as derogatorily …1842 sl.
– FRUIT FLY a crazy, eccentric, or silly person; an idiot …1987 US sl.
– GABBY a stupid or foolish person; an idiot; a simpleton …1926 US sl.
– GABEY, GABY – a stupid or foolish person; an idiot; a fool …1746 colloq. & Eng. dial.
– GADAHA a fool, an idiot …1964 W. Indies
– GADGIE a fool, an idiot …1985 Sc. sl.
– GALAH a loud-mouthed idiot …1945 Aust. sl.
– GAMFREL, GAMPHREL, GAMPHRELL * a stupid or foolish person; a blockhead, an idiot; a forward, presumptuous person …1729 Sc.
– GAPER a dolt, an idiot …1966 US sl.
– GAPING ASSHOLE a dolt, an idiot …1966 US sl.
– GARBANZO a crazy idiot …1989 US sl.
– GARBONZO a crazy idiot …1982 US sl.
– GAUKIE an awkward, clumsy person; a fool; a simpleton; an idiot …1726 Sc.
– GAUVING an idiot; a half-witted person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GAVY a silly person, or half idiot …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– GAWBY a stupid or foolish person; an idiot; a blockhead; a simpleton; a lout …1746 colloq. & Eng. dial.
– GAWKEE a loutish idiotic person …Bk1891 Eng. dial.
– GEIT a foolish fellow, an idiot; a madman …Bk1900 Sc.
– GET, GETT, GHET an idiot; a fool; an unpleasant or despicable person; a term of abuse …1931 UK sl.
– GETSIE an idiot; a fool; an unpleasant person; a term of abuse …1935 UK sl.
– GIG a fool, a simpleton, an idiot, a stupid person; a trifling, silly, flighty fellow …1685 Eng. dial.
– GIG APE a fool; an idiot …1948 Aust. sl.
– GIGHEAD a fool, an idiot …1940s Aust. sl.
– GILLIGAN a hapless, socially inept person; a moron; an idiot …1991 US sl.
– GILLY a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; an idiot …1770
– GIPE, GYPE a fool, an idiot …1825 Sc.
– GIT a fool, an idiot, a dolt; a worthless person, a good-for-nothing …1858
– GITE a foolish fellow, an idiot; a madman …Bk1900 Sc.
– GLEEF an idiot …1960s US sl.
– GOM a foolish, awkward person; a simpleton; an idiot …1996 Ireland
– GONK a fool; an idiot …2003 UK teen sl.
– GOOBER an idiot, a fool; an incompetent, a country bumpkin …M19 sl.
– GOOFUS an idiot …1917 US sl.
– GOOSECAP † a silly fellow; a stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; an idiot; a giddy or flighty young girl …1589 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
- GOOVUS an idiot …1910s US sl.
– GUMP a stupid, foolish, or awkward person; an idiot; a senseless person; a dolt …1825 Amer. dial.
– GUMP-HEAD a stupid, foolish, or awkward person; an idiot; a senseless person; a dolt …1916 Amer. dial.
– GUMPY a stupid, foolish, or awkward person; an idiot; a senseless person; a dolt …1892 Amer. dial.
– HALF-WIT a weak-minded or idiotic person; also, a dolt; a blockhead …1755
– HANS WURST an idiot …1975 Amer. dial.
– HARRY HUGGINS a fool, an idiot …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘muggins’
– HEAD-CASE an idiot …1983 euphemism
– HEAD-THE-BALL a foolish or silly person; an idiot; also, a crazy person, esp. one who is violent or unpredictable …1958 colloq., chiefly Irish & Sc.
– HOBALL † a clown, a fool, a dolt, an idiot …a1553
– HOBBIL, HOBBLE a fool, a dull, stupid person; a blockhead, a dunce, an idiot …1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HOB-GOB a fool, an idiot; an awkward, uncouth person …B1900 Eng. dial.
– IDIOTA †* an idiot …1624
– IDIWUT an idiot …1826 Sc.
– IDJIT an idiot …Bk1997 Amer. dial.
– IDJUT an idiot …Bk2002 Aust. sl.
– INNOCENT a simpleton, an idiot …1598
– ISRAEL a fool, an idiot …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– JACKASS a foolish or stupid person; an idiot, a dolt …1756
– JACK-FOOL a thundering idiot …1383 sl.
– JACK-OFF FREAK an idiot …Bk1972 homosexual sl.
– JACK SHIT an idiot …Vietnam war usage
– JIMCRACK a fool, an idiot, a half-witted person …1908 Amer. dial.
– KLUTZ an oaf; a clod or a bungler; an idiot; an awkward, stupid person …M20 US sl.
– LABRICK a fool; a dolt; an idiot; a dull, stupid person; a greenhorn; a stranger; a naive or foolish person; often used as a mild term of abuse …1889 Amer. sl.
– LAME a person who is ‘lame’; a fool, an idiot; an unsophisticated person; one who does not fir in with a particular social group …1958 US sl., chiefly Black usage
– LAMEBRAIN a fool, an idiot …1919 US sl.
– LAME-O a fool; an idiot; an unsophisticated person …1977 US college sl.
– LAMER a person who is ‘lame’; a fool, an idiot; an unsophisticated person …1961 US sl.
– LARDHEAD a stupid person; an idiot …1936 Amer. sl.
– LAVERICK a fool; a dolt; an idiot; a dull, stupid person; a greenhorn; a naive person; a stranger; often used as a mild term of abuse …1895 Amer. dial.
– LEADHEAD a blockhead, an idiot …1952 Amer. sl.
– LOLLYPOT a term of abuse; an idiot, a booby; a lazy lubber …1746 Eng. dial.
– LUNKHEAD an absolute fool; an idiot; an incompetent …M19 sl., orig. US
– MACO a fool, an idiot …20C W. Indies sl.
– MAGHNOON a fool; a dolt; an idiot …L19 among troops in Egypt
– MAISLIN a fool, a simpleton, an idiot …1781 Eng. dial.
– MAISLYKIN a fool, a simpleton, an idiot …1781 Eng. dial.
– MAKO a fool, an idiot …20C W. Indies sl.
– MAZLEKIN a fool, a simpleton, an idiot …1781 Eng. dial.
– MAZLIN a fool, a simpleton, an idiot …1781 Eng. dial.
– MAZY-JACK a fool, an idiot; a parish fool …1876 Eng. dial.
– MENTAL GIANT a fool, an idiot …1980s US campus sl.
– MENTAL HERNIA a fool; an idiot; an oaf; a stupid person …1970 Amer. sl.
– MOBY DICK a fool, an idiot …Bk2004 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘prick’
– MOISEY, MOISY a person of soft intellect, an idiot, a fool …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOLLYHAWK a fool, a simpleton, an idiot …1900 sl.
– MOLLYHEAD * a fool; a simpleton; an idiot …1902 sl.
– MOMO a stupid or useless person; an idiot; a blockhead …1953 Amer. sl.
– MOMPARA an incompetent person; a fool; an idiot; also used affectionately, and as a form of address …1930 S. Afr. colloq.
– MONG (offensive) an idiot; a fool; a mentally slow or backward person …1980 Brit. colloq.
– MONGO an idiot; a weirdo …1975 Amer. sl.
– MONGY (offensive) an idiot; a fool; a mentally slow or backward person …2000 Brit. colloq.
– MOONCALF a born fool; a congenital idiot; a simpleton …1627 colloq.
– MOONLING † * a simpleton, a fool, an idiot, a silly fellow, a lunatic …1631
– MOOSIE, MOOSY, MOOZY – a person of soft intellect, an idiot, a fool, a blockhead, a stupid person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOP-STICK †* a stupid person; a fool; an idiot …1882 sl.
– MORON a stupid or slow-witted person; a fool; an idiot; a feeble-minded person; a dunce …1917 colloq., orig. US
– MOSEY, MOSY a person of soft intellect; an idiot, a fool …1824 Sc.& Eng. dial.
– MOTORHEAD a dolt, an idiot …1973 Amer. sl.
– MOUZY, MOZEY, MOZIE, MOZY a person of soft intellect, an idiot, a fool …1824 Eng. dial.
– MUMMY an idiot …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– MUSH-FACE a fool; a sentimental idiot …1920s sl.
– NAFFHEAD a stupid person, a blockhead, a simpleton, an idiot, a dolt …1796 Eng. dial.
– NAFFIN a simpleton; a blockhead; an idiot …1790 Eng. dial.
– NAFFLIN one almost an idiot …1781 Eng. dial.
– NAFFY a soft-headed person; a simpleton; a blockhead; an idiot …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
– NANA a fool, an idiot, an incompetent …1965 sl.
– NARNA a fool, an idiot, an incompetent …1960s sl.
– NATURAL a half-witted person; one naturally deficient in intellect; an idiot; a simpleton …1533
– NATURE-FOOL a born idiot; a simpleton …1893 Eng. dial.
– NED-FOOL a noisy idiot …1600 sl.
– NENA a fool, an idiot, a ninny …1870 Eng. dial.
– NIDDY-NODDY a fool, idiot, or simpleton …1889 Eng. dial.
– NIDDYWIT a simpleton, an idiot …B1900 Eng. dial.
– NIGGET † a fool, simpleton, idiot …B1900
– NINGNONG a fool, an idiot, a stupid person …1832
– NODDY-PATE a simpleton, an idiot, a fool, an oaf …1660
– NONG an oaf; a dolt; a stupid person; a fool; an idiot …M20 Aust. sl.
– NUMBNUTS an idiot …1960 US sl.
– NUMPTY a fool; an idiot …Brit. sl.
– OAF a half-wit; a simpleton; a fool; a stupid fellow; a blockhead; an idiot; a dolt; an awkward, blundering lout; the clown of a circus …1638
– OANSHACH a foolish person, an idiot …1950 Sc.
– OASHACH a foolish person, an idiot …1950 Sc.
– PASH-HEAD a simpleton, an idiot; a soft-headed person …1890 Eng. dial.
– PIE EATER (derogatory) an unimportant or contemptible person; a fool, an idiot …1975 Aust. sl.
– POGGLE † a crazy or foolish person; an idiot …E19 Indian now rare or obs.
– PORGLY a madman; an idiot; a dolt …Bk1892 Anglo-Indian sl.
– PUGGLE † a crazy or foolish person; an idiot …E19 Indian now rare or obs.
– PUGGLY a madman; an idiot; a dolt …Bk1892 Anglo-Indian sl.
– RAAS a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RAASHOLE a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RADGEPOT an idiot; a fool …1979 UK sl.
– RANKER an absolute idiot …M19 sl.
– RARSE a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RAAS a derogatory description of a person; a contemptible person; an idiot …1959 W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RAASHOLE a derogatory description of a person; a general term of abuse; a contemptible person; a great fool; an idiot …1959 W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RADGE a mad or violent person; an idiot …1995 orig. Eng. dial., now chiefly Sc.
– RADGEPOT an idiot; a fool …1979 UK sl.
– RANKER an absolute idiot …M19 sl.
– RARSE a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RASS a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RASSHOLE a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
– RIGHT NANA a fool, an idiot, an incompetent …1960s sl.
– SALA an idiot …2003 US sl.
– SAP a simpleton; a blockhead; a fool; a dunce; a dullard; an idiot …1817 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SILLY ASS an amiable, upper-class idiot
– SILLY BOLLOCK(S) a contemptible fool; an idiot …1999 UK sl.
– SPANNER a fool; a stupid person; an idiot …1987 sl.
– SPANNER-HEAD a fool; a stupid person; an idiot …1990 Aust. sl.
– SPARE an idiot; a boring person …1991 Irish sl.
– SPAS (derogatory) a spastic person; an ineffectual or incompetent person; a fool; an idiot; a stupid person; a clumsy, unattractive person …1965 sl.
– SPASTIC (offensive) one who is uncoordinated, ineffectual, or incompetent; a fool; an idiot; a stupid person; a clumsy, unattractive person …1968 sl.
– SPAZ(Z) (derogatory) a spastic person; an ineffectual, useless, or incompetent person; a fool; an idiot; a stupid person; a clumsy, unattractive person …1965 sl.
– SPAZ-WIT a fool, an idiot, a stupid person .,..1998 UK sl.
– TAMEVATE a dope; an idiot …Bk1982 Jewish
– THITER a foolish fellow; an idiot …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TRONK an idiot; a foolish person …1970s UK teen sl.
– TRONK-HEAD an idiot; a foolish person …1970s UK teen sl.
– TURKEY an idiot, a fool …Bk1995 US sl.
– TWALLY an idiot; a fool …1996 Sc. sl.
– UNFORTUNATE an idiot …1881 Ireland
– UTZPAY a fool, an idiot …1930s Pig Latin for ‘putz’
– WAD a fool, an idiot, an unpleasant person …1900 sl., orig. US college usage
– WAD-WASTE a term of abuse; a fool, an idiot, an unpleasant person …1981 sl., orig. US college
– WAG an idiot; a moron …Bk1994 US surfing sl.
– WALLY an idiot …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– WILMA a female idiot …1980s US sl.
– WONKYBONCE an idiot; also, a nickname for a stupid, thick person …Bk2004 Brit. sl.
– WOZZ a fool; an idiot …Brit. sl.
– WOZZLE a fool; an idiot …Brit. sl.
– YASHA an idiot; a fool; a dolt …Bk1972 homosexual sl.
– YAWNY an idiotic or senseless person; a fool; a simpleton; a dolt …Bk1887 Eng. dial.
– YOBBO a foolish, unsophisticated idiot …Bk1988 Aust. sl.
– YOMMER-HEAD a blockhead; an idiot …1877 Eng. dial.
– YOTZ a fool, an idiot …1983 US sl.
– YOYO an unpredictable or inconsistent person whose moods and actions go up and down; hence, a fool; an idiot, a dolt; a stupid person; an obnoxious person; an incompetent, or undesirable person; a jerk …1959 US sl.
– YUTZ a fool, an idiot; a simpleton; a failure …1983 US sl.
– ZONK a fool; a dolt; an idiot …Bk1988 Aust. & NZ
– ZOTEY a fool; an idiot …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
IDIOTIC – adjectives
– APARTMENTS-TO-LET weak-minded; idiotic …B1874 Eng. sl.
– ASSHOLINGEST most idiotic …1972 Amer. sl.
– BABBLE half-witted; idiotic …1835 Sc.
– BALMY soft, idiotic, weak-minded; insane …1851 sl.
– BARMY ON THE CRUMPET crazy, wrong in the head, mad, idiotic, weak-minded …1891
– CAKEY silly, weak of intellect, idiotic …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CALUTED idiotic, stupid, dull of comprehension …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DAFF stupid, dull, idiotic …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DIPPY foolish, simple-minded, idiotic, shallow-minded; infatuated, deeply in love; peculiar, mildly insane, crazy …1899 US sl.
– DOOFLESS idiotic, stupid, dull …1970s US sl.
– EASY feeble-minded, idiotic, silly …1896 Eng. dial.
– FATUOUS * that is in a state of dementia or imbecility; idiotic …1773
– GABY foolish, idiotic …1874 Eng. dial.
– GAPING-MOUTHED gaping, foolish, idiotic …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GAWBY foolish, idiotic; ill-mannered, uncouth …1874 Eng. dial.
– GYPED, GYPIT silly, foolish, idiotic …1804 Sc.
– IDIOTISH † idiotic …1559
– IDIOTLY †* idiotic …1662
– INSANE idiotic, utterly senseless, irrational, obsessive …M19
– LACK-WIT foolish, idiotic, or simple-minded …1735
– LUNATIC madly foolish, frantic, idiotic …1571
– POINTY-HEADED stupid; idiotic …1968 Amer. sl.
– RADGIFIED idiotic, very silly …20C UK sl.
– SART-AND-FAIR stupid, senseless, idiotic …1746 Eng. dial.
– SO WET YOU COULD SHOOT DUCKS OFF HIM idiotic …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– THICKHEAD idiotic, foolish, stupid …1999 UK sl.
– YAPPIFIED idiotic …1979 UK sl.
– YAPPY foolish, soft; idiotic …M19 sl.
– ZATENFARE stupid, senseless, idiotic …1746 Eng. dial.
idiotic – verbs
– BE SHORT OF A SHEET to be slightly crazy or idiotic …Bk1892 Aust. sl.
– HAVE A SHINGLE SHORT to be slightly crazy or idiotic …Bk1892 Aust. sl.
– IDIOTIZE to become idiotic or stupid …? a1800
IDIOTICALLY – adverbs
– DAFFY-LIKE foolishly, like an idiot …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
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