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Webster 1913 Edition


Lackbrain

Lack′brainˊ

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Noun.
One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Lackbrain

LACK'BRAIN

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Noun.
One that wants brains, or is deficient in understanding.

Definition 2024


lackbrain

lackbrain

English

Noun

lackbrain (plural lackbrains)

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

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