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Bonehead vs Cretin - What's the difference?

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Bonehead is a related term of cretin.


As nouns the difference between bonehead and cretin

is that bonehead is (slang) someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, or stupid while cretin is idiot, fool, bastard, fuckwit etc.

As an adjective cretin is

stupid; idiotic; foolish etc.

bonehead

English

Noun

(wikipedia bonehead) (en noun)
  • (slang) Someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, or stupid.
  • * 1921 , James Huneker, Variations , page 248:
    • Musical Potterism, for example, is everywhere rampant. It bobs up]] in music criticisms and peeps forth in daily intercourse. "Give me good old ," cries the classical Potterite, "and keep your modern kickshaws. Mozart is good enough for me!" Alas, we think Mozart is too good for this bonehead , who no doubt prefers a Broadway comic opera to [[w:The Marriage of Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro.

    Derived terms

    * boneheaded

    cretin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
  • (pejorative) An idiot.
  • * 1969 , Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
    • When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin . He got very supercilious and condescending

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * cretinism * cretinize * cretinoid * cretinous

    External links

    * (Cretinism)