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televidiot

noun

Etymology

Blend of television + idiot.

  1. derived from ἰδιώτης
  2. derived from idiota
  3. derived from idiote
  4. inherited from idiote
  5. compounded as televidiot — “television + idiot”

Definitions

  1. A person who is obsessed with watching television.

    • Into the high-school classrooms troop the future engineers, scientists, lawyers, and intellectuals: but along with them shuffles a lackluster motley crew of hopeless nincompoops and televidiots.
    • Radio interviews are the best and most productive publicity you can get. People who listen to radio listen to learn something, rather than be passively amused as televidiots do. Radio listeners buy books.

  2. A television personality.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for televidiot. 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