U vs Idiot - What's the difference?
u | idiot |
The twenty-first letter of the .
symbol for unified atomic mass unit
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(label) up quark
Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur
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(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 letter u
is the letter u with an acute accent.As a noun idiot is
(slang|derogatory) a proponent of intelligent design.u
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=t, next=v, image=Etymology 1
Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .Letter
Etymology 2
Symbol
(head)See also
{{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }}idiot
English
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.