cretin
noun/ˈkɹɛtɪn/UK/ˈkɹiːtɪn/US
Etymology
From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.
- derived from christiānus
- borrowed from crétin
Definitions
A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
An idiot.
- When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin. He got very supercilious and condescending […]
A surname.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cretin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA