bimbo
A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance,…A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
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Meaning
2 senses(derogatory, slang)A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
a. 1992, P. J. O’Rourke, a sketch A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake.
Tussi, Betthäschen
фифаfifa
(dated, derogatory, slang)A stupid or foolish person.
Idiot, Dummkopf
- a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men
Examples
13 sentencesWho are you calling a bimbo?
Rima turned into a superficial bimbo.
Mary is a bimbo-girl: she's decorative but airheaded.
The only difference between a bimbo and a prostitute is payment.
ruЕдинственная разница между глупой девкой и проституткой - плата.
He's dating that bimbo.
Translations
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Origin
From Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in IFrom Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in Italian American theater, attested 1919, as “stupid, inconsequential man”, by 1920 developed sense of “floozie, attractive and stupid woman”. Popularized in 1920s by Jack Conway of entertainment magazine Variety, who also popularized baloney (“nonsense”) and palooka (“large stupid man”). Revived in popularity in 1980s US political sex scandals.
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