Cretin

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cretin
/kret´in/
/kree´tn/
Usage: n.


cretin: /kret´in/ /kree´tn/ n.

Congenital loser; an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right. It has been observed that many American hackers tend to favor the British pronunciation /kret´in/ over standard American /kree´tn/; it is thought this may be due to the insidious phonetic influence of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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Source: cretin, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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