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dumbos

noun

Meaning

  1. A stupid person.
  2. "Stupid person," by 1951, American English, from dumb. The Disney musical cartoon is from 1941; in it the elephant's name is a mocking nickname based on Jumbo.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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