dimbus

English

Etymology

From dim. Compare dimbo.

Noun

dimbus (plural dimbuses)

1. (slang) A foolish or stupid person.
   • 2000, Gone-A-Viking, “Gore's G.O.T.V. for Blacks”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):

     >Have you heard that Sierra has a 77gr. .224 that'll feed through an magazine?
     
     Thats^[sic] .223 you dimbus, now I really believe you won't shoot yourself in the foot first. BTW SS109 is better anyway.

   • 2002, Michael Crichton, Prey, page 29:

     We had a clock counting down to the satellite time, which was booked and locked. We couldn't change it. We had to make the time, and this guy was a dimbus. But eventually we got it working.

Anagrams

• misdub