Cretin vs Mong - What's the difference?
cretin | mong |
(pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
(pejorative) An idiot.
* 1969 , Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
(Australian slang) A mongrel dog.'>citation
* 1965 , Brian James, The Big Burn: Short Stories ,
(dated, offensive, pejorative, British, slang) A person with Down's syndrome.
(pejorative, British, slang) A stupid person.
(obsolete) a variant spelling of
As nouns the difference between cretin and mong
is that cretin is idiot, fool, bastard, fuckwit etc while mong is (dialect) a mixture, a crowdchambers twentieth century dictionary or mong can be (australian slang) a mongrel dog or mong can be (dated|offensive|pejorative|british|slang) a person with down's syndrome.As an adjective cretin
is stupid; idiotic; foolish etc.As a preposition mong is
(obsolete) a variant spelling of.cretin
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 alsoDerived terms
* cretinism * cretinize * cretinoid * cretinousExternal links
* (Cretinism)mong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Derived terms
* mongcornEtymology 2
Contraction of (mongrel).Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- Some blue cattle-dogs and a small pack of mongs barked excitedly, and danced round, and wished they knew what to do in such an unheard-of situation; and no doubt dreamed for days after of what they had done to distinguish themselves.