lamebrain n.
(orig. US) a fool, a simpleton.
[ | Sacramento Bee (CA) 9 May 12/4: [advert] Our Kola Wine Braces up Tired, Weak and Lame Brains [...] in fact (it will almost clothe a skeleton)]. | |
Courier Post (Camden, NJ) 7 Mar. n.p.: [cartoon caption] Gosjh, I’d like to get a look at the poor ‘Lame-Brain’. | ||
Overseas with an Aero Squadron 70: John Cruigshank [...] It was really too severe to call John by the awful cognomen of ‘Lame-brain.’. | ||
Columbia Eve. Missourian (MO) 2 Nov. 7/4: The Tigers fight hard not only on Saturdays when the ‘lame-brains’ go to see the games, but also every afternoon. | ||
Times-Indep. (Moab, UT) 24 Oct. 5/4: Where are you going Lame Brain? his chum asked. | ||
Rendezvous with Fear 24: Come in, lame-brain. | ||
‘The Open Book’ in Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 115: Take the lame-brain from cold Colorado, / where high Pike’s Peak ponders and broods. | ||
Angels are Painted Fair 85: Okay, lame-brain, where are you? | ||
Riot (1967) 44: The muscle-bound lamebrain was scared stiff. | ||
Spike Island (1981) 189: Dirty-ankled, half-pissed lame brains with a collective I.Q. of forty-three. | ||
Desperate Dan Special No. 7 5: Of course! Samurai swords are all Japanese, lame brain. | ||
Indep. Rev. 12 May 10: A rebuke to the message-mongering of Hollywood lamebrains. |