stunod

English

Etymology

Italian-American immigrant slang; dialectal. In standard Italian it would be Italian stonato (“out of tune”). However, in the late 19th and early 20th century emigrants to America did not speak the Florentine dialect that Standard Italian is based upon and instead used the Sicilian stunatu or the Neapolitan stunat'. The meaning is very similar in all three.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈstunɑd/

Adjective

stunod (not comparable)

(slang) Stupid or crazy; out of touch with reality.
- 2000 Christmas, “Are you stunod?”, in Primo‎, volume 1, number 2, page 27:
  If I was acting particularly spacey, my mother would ask, “Are you stunod?”
- 2000, Laurino, Maria, Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America‎, W.W. Norton:
  “Do you understand me? Are you stunod?” my mother would say. Stunod. Someone who is out-of-it, spacey, not a practical person who knows that life is labor and that only the sturdy can get the job done.
- 2010 August 3, Fingerman, Bob, Pariah, Tor, →ISBN, OL 24329806M:
  “The stunod commander, a German Commodore no less, decides that there's just too many ships in the Gulf, and he doesn't have the manpower to search everyone of them.”

Translations

stupid

Finnish: tärähtänyt (fi)

Noun

stunod (plural stunods)

(slang, derogatory) A stupid or crazy person.
- 2002, MacDonald, Patricia, Not Guilty‎, Pocket Books, OL 3956421M:
  “Hey, stunod,” Gina interjected angrily. “Help the lady.”
- 2010, Fingerman, Bob, Pariah, Tor, →ISBN, page 205:
  “Fuck me,” Eddie growled, cursing himself for the stunod that he was.
- 2011 February 15, Scorziello, Lou, My Brother's Keeper‎, Xlibris, →ISBN, LCCN 2011900209:
  That stunod never calls me unless I'm late with his tuition.

Translations

stupid person

Finnish: tolvana (fi)

Anagrams

Dutson, donuts, stound