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крети́н — meaning in English

kretin

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English meaning

  • cretin noun An insulting term for a stupid or foolish person.
  • goof noun A mistake or blunder.
  • moron noun An insult for a stupid or foolish person.

Senses

крети́н is used for these senses in English:

  • cretin (medicine, archaic) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]
  • cretin (by extension, pejorative) An idiot.
  • feeb (US, slang) Someone who is feeble-minded; an idiot.
  • goof (US, Canada, MTE, informal) A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
  • moron (psychology, dated, originally) A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.

goof — full definition

  1. noun A mistake or blunder.
  2. noun A silly or foolish person.
  3. verb To make a mistake, or to fool around instead of being serious.

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