Simpleton vs Jackass - What's the difference?
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(pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.
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A male donkey.
A foolish or stupid person.
An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
(poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity
(rare) To behave very obnoxiously.
Simpleton is a related term of jackass.
As nouns the difference between simpleton and jackass
is that simpleton is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense while jackass is a male donkey.As a proper noun jackass is
(poker slang) a jack and an ace as a starting hand in texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.As a verb jackass is
(rare) to behave very obnoxiously.simpleton
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war. }}
- The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton'. Albeit a ' simpleton with a good vocabulary.