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