cretin
noun/ˈkretɪn/
/ˈkriːtn/
- (informal, offensive) an offensive way to refer to person who you think is very stupid
- What cretin did that?
- (old-fashioned, offensive) a word for a person with a very low level of intelligence that is now considered offensive
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French crétin, from Swiss French crestin ‘Christian’ (from Latin Christianus), here used to mean ‘human being’, apparently as a reminder that cretins were human and not beasts.
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