village idiot

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person widely known in their community for their stupidity and mental deficiency.
    — It is true that the Doocot was occasionally appropriated to other purposes than that of a tolbooth for the sorner, the drunken gipsy, the village idiot at the change of the moon, the swearing bluegown, and the contumacious birdnester on the sabbath; […]

词形变化

village idiots plural

词源

From the saying “Every village has its village idiot”, alleged to be an old Yiddish proverb.
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