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lackbrain en · NOUN

Etymology

From lack + brain.

Meanings

1. (derogatory) A person who lacks brains; an idiot.
   • Among themselves, his clerical brethren who employed him to produce revivals, acknowledged him to be but a pitiful lackbrain... 1841, George Rogers, Tales from Life:
   • One moment I was staring up at that lackbrain Sister Margaret, and the next I was staring at that lackbrain chieftain... 2007, Sandra Hill, Down and Dirty:
   • "Is that clear enough, even for you, lackbrain?" 1995, Catherine Coulter, Lord of Falcon Ridge:

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