a feeble-minded person

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• incompetent person — Literally and broadly, one lacking competency, physical or mental. Usually having reference in the law to an insane or feeble minded person; a person lacking the mental capacity to make a contract or engage in business transactions. Sometimes… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• The Simple-Minded Murder — Swedish cover. Directed by Hasse Alfredson Written by Hasse …   Wikipedia

• wet nellie — feeble minded person (Derogatory Slang); Liverpudlian sweet dish made of stale bread and crusts …   English contemporary dictionary

• Derek Bentley case — Derek William Bentley Born 30 June 1933 (1933 06 30) Died 28 …   Wikipedia

• imbecile — (adj.) 1540s, imbecille weak, feeble (especially in reference to the body), from M.Fr. imbecile (15c.), from L. imbecillus weak, feeble (see IMBECILITY (Cf. imbecility)). Sense shifted to mental weakness from mid 18c. As a noun, feeble minded… …   Etymology dictionary

• Derek Bentley — Infobox Person name=Derek William Bentley birth date = 30 June 1933 birth place = death date = 28 January 1953 (aged 19) death place = Wandsworth (HM Prison) other names = known for = occupation =Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January… …   Wikipedia

• moron — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. simpleton, half wit, imbecile. See ignorance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. feeble minded person, mentally handicapped person, retardate, imbecile, idiot*, simpleton, natural, goose*, addlepate*, dullard,… …   English dictionary for students

• dweeb — noun N. Amer. informal a boring, studious, or socially inept person. Derivatives dweebish adjective dweeby adjective Origin 1980s: perh. a blend of dwarf and feeb a feeble minded person …   English new terms dictionary

• changeling — [chānj′liŋ] n. 1. a child secretly put in the place of another; esp., in folk tales, one exchanged in this way by fairies 2. Archaic a changeable person; turncoat 3. Archaic a feeble minded person …   English World dictionary

• feeb — /feeb/, n. Slang (disparaging and offensive). a feeble minded person. [1910 15; by shortening] * * * …   Universalium

• feeb — n American a feeble minded person, a twerp. A teen agers term. This is one of a series of expressions for social misfits or peer group outcasts coined by American school and college pupils. Earlier words such as wimp and nerd have entered world… …   Contemporary slang