celebutard

noun
/səˈlɛbjutɑɹd/US

Etymology

Blend of celebrity + debutante + retard. Compare the suffix -tard. The first documented usage of the term was in a story about Paris Hilton published in the New York Post on 21 January 2006 ("Paris With a P"), which was followed by the second documented usage of the term in another story about Hilton published in the same paper five days later ("Unedited Paris Not Cute at All").

  1. derived from retardāre
  2. derived from retarder
  3. inherited from retarden
  4. compounded as celebutard — “celebrity + debutante + retard

Definitions

  1. A stupid celebrity, especially one who behaves badly in public.

    • Paris Hilton … helped coin the buzzword celebutard, a cross between celebrity and retard. From her sex tapes to having her belongings auctioned on the Web, she seems to totter from one embarrassing moment to another.
    • [A]t some point between the moment a movie script wanders into the hands of a world-class celebutard such as George Clooney, and the words travel through lilting vocal chords and land on unsuspecting ears, something terrible occurs.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA