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Cretin

//ˈkɹiːtɪn// noun

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Noun

1
A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. archaic
2
a person of subnormal intelligence wordnet
3
An idiot. broadly, derogatory
"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 […]"

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.

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