numbnuts
English
Etymology
numb + nuts
Pronunciation
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Noun
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
- “numbnuts”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Jonathon Green (2023), “numbnuts n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
- 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.