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单词 idiot born
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idiot bornn.adj.

Brit. /ˌɪdɪət ˈbɔːn/, U.S. /ˌɪdiət ˈbɔrn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: idiot n. and adj., born adj.
Etymology: < idiot n. and adj. + born adj. (compare born adj. 6b(b)).
Now offensive (regional or archaic).
A. n.
A person mentally disabled from birth.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > type of > person
idiot born1558
cretin1775
cretinist1839
Mongol1896
moron1910
pointy-head1946
Mongoloid1949
1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers 143 By the Ciuile Lawes, a foole or idiot borne, and so proued, shall lose his landes and inheritance whereunto he is borne.
1735 B. N. Defoe New Eng. Dict. Non Compos Mentis, signifies, first, an Idiot born.
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xxxvi. 186 The idiot-born cannot without a miracle become a philosopher.
1846 W. Pattison in M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Legendary Div. III. 306 He had twelve ponies, and carried with him, his son, who was an idiot born.
1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 64 Aren't you after saying that your son's a fool, and how would they be cheering a true idiot born?
1967 U. K. Le Guin City of Illusions i. 5 He may be an idiot born, who blundered here by chance.
B. adj.
Mentally disabled from birth. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective] > type of
idiot born1791
cretinous1793
cretinoid1862
Mongolian1866
Mongol1876
amaurotic1896
Mongoloid1899
moronic1910
infantilistic1930
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iv. 86 Stranger! Thou must be ideot born or weak At least in intellect.
1827 H. Taylor Isaac Comnenus i. iii. 31 This multitude, this monster idiot-born, Moves you not one of its Briaerean hands By its own brainless head.
1902 M. Corelli Temporal Power xxv. 385 You talk like a fool or a madman,—yet you are neither—neither, you understand?—neither idiot-born nor suddenly crazed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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