is moron a medical term?
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Moron is a term once used in psychology and psychiatry to denote mild intellectual disability. The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement. Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.
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(colloquial, derogatory) An idiot. ... (colloquial, often humorous, euphemistic) A penis. What do you mean booze ain't food? I'd rather chop off my ding dong than admit that!
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a silly, out-of-touch person who tends to look odd or behave ridiculously around others; a social misfit: If you make me wear that, I'll look like a total dork! Slang: Vulgar. penis.
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—The term "funny looking kid (FLK)" has unfortunately crept into the pediatrician's jargon in describing a patient with an unusual facial appearance. It is now also being used by nurses and paramedical personnel, particularly those working in the field of genetics and mental retardation.
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1 : farmer, countryman. 2 : a rude ill-bred person : boor. 3a : a fool, jester, or comedian in an entertainment (such as a play) specifically : a grotesquely dressed comedy performer in a circus. b : a person who habitually jokes and plays the buffoon.
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(Entry 1 of 3) 1a : an annoyingly stupid or foolish person was acting like a jerk. b : an unlikable person especially : one who is cruel, rude, or small-minded a selfish jerk.
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Layman is not an insult or slur, but, like others have pointed out, it can sometimes be insulting to say that someone isn't a subject-matter expert. Meanwhile, I'm more concerned that you're using layman in cases where it isn't appropriate, lexically. It doesn't just mean an ordinary person.
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Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), fashion-monger, and ninny.
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The word “wacky” was used to describe a person whose brain didn't function properly. ... This new meaning was used to describe a bad person, because people believed that someone who would do such evil things, their brain must not be functioning properly.
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Definitions include: derogatory term; "moron". Definitions include: the perineum. Definitions include: misspelling of "gooch". Definitions include: misspelling of choad.
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(Entry 1 of 3) 1a dated, offensive : a person who is incapable of speaking. b : a person who is habitually silent. c : a stupid person He's no dummy. She loves you, you dummy.
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an unintelligent person. See more words with the same meaning: unintelligent person, idiot.
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A court is concerned with legal insanity, and not with medical insanity. [16,19] Any person, who is suffering from any kind of mental illness is called “medical insanity,” however “legal insanity” means, person suffering from mental illness should also have a loss of reasoning power.
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Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. ... The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve". In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting".
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In north America the word is generally harmless. When you call someone silly, you are not insulting their intelligence. Rather, you are likely calling them goofy, funny, playful (often in a childish way). The word is mostly used when talking to children.
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A moron, idiot, dumbass, and overall stupid. A human who accidentally got into santas bag, and was raised by elves, who because of his human form, cannot make toys as fast as the elves and is inferior. An inferior toy-maker.
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Such a person is known as a pathological liar, a compulsive liar, or a mythomaniac. See this definition of pseudologia fantastica. Drama Queen. Someone who turns something unimportant into a major deal.