dimmock

See also: Dimmock

English

Etymology 1

Noun

dimmock (plural dimmocks)

1. (UK, slang) A foolish person; a dimwit.
   • 1990 January, "Pictionary" (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 48, page 38

     Well, first, to all the dimmocks out there, I have only one thing to say. Please take your felt tips AWAY from the TV screen. Right, now throw them away, you won't be needing them. You see, Pictionary comes complete with a nifty art package, needing only the addition of your fingers and a keyboard to originate the most splendiferous of graphic designs.

   • 2015, Chris Martin, Inky Stevens, For Whom the School-Bell Tolls, page 73:

     "No he wasn't! My dad said he was in Wham."
     "What, your dad was?"
     "No, Geogre Michael, you spoff. And he wore a little white glove."
     "That was Prince, you dimmock!"

Etymology 2

Perhaps from dime.

Noun

dimmock (uncountable)

1. (slang, obsolete) Money.
   • 1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149:

     "I wouldn't take any dimmock [money] from a cove like yourself, even if you held it," the smith chuckled.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary