cos some bitch just called me one!

 

i know it means you are stupid, but where did the word come from?!!

 

 

 

Becky:

 

The word is imbecile, and yes it means someone who is stupid, or of low inteligence. Pronounced Im - Ba - Seal.

 

As to where it came from, who knows, it's just a word. Other words you could throw back are:

 

Idiot, pillock, dim, thick, dull, foolish, dense, mindless, asenine, harebrained, all of which are similar in meaning to imbecile!!

 

She doesn't sound very nice.

 

ian

xx

 

Yo yo yo...

 

"A stupid or silly person". I reckon that could be taken as a compliment!

 

It's 'imbecile' and Dictionary.com says that it comes from a Latin word 'imbecillus' but that nobody really knows the origin!

 

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=imbecile

 

 

Idiot, pillock, dim, thick, dull, foolish, dense, mindless, asenine, harebrained

 

Dont be so hard on yourself Big man, you're not that bad!

Do you mean imbecile, you imbecile? If so, it means "idiot" and come from French and thus no doubt originally from latin. This doesn't give the derivation of imbecile but does for some similar words...

 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:fjpVCD5NLj0C:www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Clark,%2520Laurence/language.pdf+imbecile+derivation+french&hl=en&ie=UTF-8