numbnuts
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈnʌmnʌts/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]numbnuts (plural numbnuts or numbnutses)
- (chiefly US, slang, derogatory, sometimes humorous, often as a term of address) A slow-witted, unresponsive, or inept person (usually male).
- Tell numbnuts over there to wake up and pay attention to his work.
- 1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey):
- What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?
References
[edit]- “numbnuts”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “numbnuts n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- In A Dictionary of Slang: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom, retrieved 25 May 2007.
- In An Unabridged Unofficial Dictionary for Marines, retrieved 10 March 2021.
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