- Meaning: a stupid person; a person who is moderate to severe in mental retardation (offensive use)
- In Hong Kong slang: 懞仔,死蠢,低能,弱智
- In decent Chinese: 愚蠢,笨蛋; 智障 (人士)
- Where we first met: New York Times Book Review - 'If the best Lapham can do is to come up with 50 inventive new ways to call Bush an imbecillic oligarch, all he's doing is heckling.' (from review on Pretensions to Empire by Lewis H. Lapham)
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
imbecile [n], imbecillic [adj]
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
ire
- Meaning: anger, esp when intensely and openly displayed
- In Hong Kong slang: 罊, 罄到爆
- Where we first met: somewhere in BBC news online
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