lackbrain

noun

lackbrain

noun

Etymology From lack + brain.

1

Derogatory A person who lacks brains; an idiot.

  • Among themselves, his clerical brethren who employed him to produce revivals, acknowledged him to be but a pitiful lackbrain...1841, George Rogers, Tales from Life:
  • "Is that clear enough, even for you, lackbrain?"1995, Catherine Coulter, Lord of Falcon Ridge:
1 more example
  • One moment I was staring up at that lackbrain Sister Margaret, and the next I was staring at that lackbrain chieftain...2007, Sandra Hill, Down and Dirty:

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