dumbass

See also: dumb-ass and dumb ass

English

Etymology

dumb +‎ ass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌm.æs/

Noun

dumbass (plural dumbasses)

1. (US, vulgar, slang) A stupid or foolish person.

   The dumbass walked off with my car keys and left me hers.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fool

Translations

stupid or foolish person

• Azerbaijani: gicdıllaq (vulgar)
• Catalan: ninot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傻仔 (so⁴ zai²), 戇鳩／戆鸠 (ngong⁶ gau¹), 戆鸠 (ngong⁶ gau¹), 蠢才 (ceon² coi⁴)

  Mandarin: 蠢才 (zh) (chǔncái), 蠢驢／蠢驴 (zh), 蠢驴 (zh) (chǔnlǘ), 傻屄 (zh) (shǎbī) (vulgar)

• Czech: blbec (cs) m
• Danish: dummerik c, dummernik c
• Finnish: tollo (fi), tyhmä (fi), molopää (vulgar)
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• French: abruti (fr) m, crétin (fr) m, andouille (fr) f, tête de nœud (fr) f
• German: Blödmann (de) m, Trottel (de) m
• Japanese: アホ (aho)
• Portuguese: torpe (pt), tonto (pt) m, burro (pt) m, asno (pt) m, mula (pt) f
• Russian: тупи́ца (ru) m or f (tupíca), приду́рок (ru) m (pridúrok), деби́л (ru) m (debíl), долбоёб (ru) m (dolbojób) (vulgar), муда́к (ru) m (mudák) (vulgar), муди́ло (ru) n (mudílo) (vulgar), ебла́н (ru) m (jeblán) (vulgar), мудозво́н (ru) m (mudozvón) (vulgar)
• Spanish: torpe (es) m, tontón m, tarado (es) m, gilipollas (es) n, pendejo (es)

Adjective

dumbass (comparative more dumbass or dumberass, superlative most dumbass or dumbestass)

1. (US, vulgar, slang) Stupid, foolish.

   That dumbass driver ruined my car!

   • 2015, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely, All American Boys, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN)

     I zipped my coat up to the neck, worried now that going to the march was more dumbass than I'd thought. It got closer—the only frigging thing in the road!—and I realized I was shaking. I couldn't move.

See also

• hard-ass