Shawn vs Idiot - What's the difference?
shawn | idiot |
, popular in the US in the 1970s.
* 1996 , The Night in Question: Stories , Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0679402187, page 141
, transferred from the male name.
* 1984 , , Love Medicine , Bantam Books 1987, ISBN 0553268082, page 169
(pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
(obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.
As a proper noun shawn
is , popular in the us in the 1970s.As a noun idiot is
(slang|derogatory) a proponent of intelligent design.shawn
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Alternative forms
* Sean * ShaunProper noun
(en proper noun)- Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N . Like they have a right to that name in the first place.
- Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn , like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.
Derived terms
* Deshawn * Shawnaidiot
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Alternative forms
* eejit * idjit, idget (eye dialect)Noun
(en noun)- usage note This may be used pejoratively, as an insult. It is a weak insult, however, and between close friends, family members, or lovers, is often completely nonaggressive.