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What (who) is cretin - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Cretin (disambiguation)
cretin
(cretins)
If you call someone a cretin, you think they are very stupid. (OFFENSIVE)
= moron
N-COUNT [disapproval]
cretin
['kr?t?n]
¦ noun
1. a stupid person.
2. Medicine, dated a person who is physically deformed and has learning difficulties because of congenital thyroid deficiency.
Derivatives
cretinism noun
cretinous adjective
Origin
C18: from Fr. cretin, from Swiss Fr. crestin 'Christian', appar. used to convey a reminder that such people are human.
Cretin
·noun One afflicted with cretinism.
Wikipedia
Cretin
Cretin may refer to:
- An archaic term for a patient with congenital iodine deficiency syndrome (cretinism)
- A pejorative term, similar to idiot
Examples of use of cretin
1. The average citizen is a cretin in sore need of a good hard culling.
2. Since I am a financial cretin, I don‘t fill out the forms myself.
3. Bush is a nasty little moral cretin fronting a gang of elitist thugs whose only concerns are loot and power.
4. One viewer wrote: "Who was the cretin that decided to leave the Judi Dench bit as it was?
5. This cretin Brown loves the word multi anything. – Will Smith, Rochester, Kent This is the heap that promised education, education education, remember?