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語源

dumb +‎ ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the original sense within this compound noun (solid compound または open compound), but neither sense is precluded, and many people today may uncritically parse the term in the latter way, even if it is misapprehensive. Apparent analogy with forms such as hard-ass and big-ass would naturally lend support to the second parsing. A similar synergy can be seen in the fact that the terms buttload and assload originated as literally meaning a cartload and the load transportable by a single donkey (respectively), but probably most English speakers today would assume that their derivation involves the buttocks.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌm.æs/

名詞

dumbass (複数形 dumbasses)

1. (US, vulgar, slang) A stupid or foolish person.

   The dumbass walked off with my car keys and left me hers.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:fool

派生語

• dumbassery
• dumbassity

形容詞

dumbass (comparative more dumbass または dumberass, superlative most dumbass または dumbestass)

1. (US, vulgar, slang) Stupid, foolish.

   That dumbass driver ruined my car!

   • 2015, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely, All American Boys, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     I zipped my coat up to the neck, worried now that going to the march was more dumbass than I'd thought. It got closer—the only frigging thing in the road!—and I realized I was shaking. I couldn't move.

参考

• hard-ass

形容詞

dumb ass (comparative more dumb ass, superlative most dumb ass)

1. Alternative spelling of dumbass