Meaning

1 senses
  1. (US, derogatory, mildly, slang)A stupid or foolish person.

    The dumbass walked off with my car keys and left me hers.

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    тупи́цаtupíca, приду́рокpridúrok, деби́лdebíl

    a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

Examples

16 sentences
  1. That dumbass didn't even hear out Tom.

    Той лобур навіть не вислухав Тома.

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  2. Tom looks just like a dumbass.

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  3. Can't you even understand that, you dumbass?

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  4. It isn't worth arguing with a dumbass like you.

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  5. Every dumbass with a camera thinks he is a photographer.

    ruКаждый придурок с фотоаппаратом думает, что он фотограф.

    deJeder Depp mit einer Kamera hält sich für einen Fotografen.

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Translations

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Русский
By meaning 1
stupid or foolish person:
Deutsch
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stupid or foolish person:

Origin

From dumb + ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the origina

From dumb + ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the original sense within this compound noun (solid compound or open compound), but neither sense is precluded, and many people today may uncritically parse the term in the latter way, even if it is misapprehensive. Apparent analogy with forms such as hard-ass and big-ass would naturally lend support to the second parsing. A similar synergy can be seen in the fact that the terms buttload and assload originated as literally meaning a cartload and the load transportable by a single donkey (respectively), but probably most English speakers today would assume that their derivation involves the buttocks.

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Forms

plural: dumbasses

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

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