dumbass

dumbass 是美式俚语，指“愚蠢的、犯傻的”，也可指一个愚蠢的人；带有轻度贬义，语气较粗俗。

💡 记忆钩子

把犯傻的人想成一头“蠢驴”：先可以说某人或某件事很蠢，后来也可以直接用这个词指那个蠢人。

📝 学习建议

先把它作为“犯傻、蠢人”的非正式骂人词整体记忆，不要按字面拆成“沉默的屁股”来理解。注意它既能描述人或事物，也能直接指人。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 蠢的；犯傻的

📖 形容某人、某个决定或某件事很愚蠢，像是在做明显会出问题的傻事。

💡 常见模式是“a dumbass mistake/idea/driver”等，用在名词前说明其愚蠢；也可说“be dumbass”来评价行为，但实际使用中前一种结构更自然。这个词通常不是客观描述，而是在责骂或嘲笑。不要把它用于正式评价，也不要误以为它只是“笨拙”而没有冒犯性。

US derogatory mildly slang vulgar

That was a dumbass decision, and now we have to start over.

那真是个愚蠢的决定，现在我们得重新开始。

He made a dumbass move and lost the last train.

他犯了个傻，结果错过了末班车。

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noun

core 蠢人；笨蛋

📖 指一个被说话人认为很蠢、做事很犯傻的人；可以是严厉责骂，也可以是熟人之间较轻的嘲笑。

💡 常见模式是“the dumbass did something”或“call someone a dumbass”；它通常带限定词，不能像专有称呼一样随便单独使用。这个名词的对象必须是人，不要用它指一个决定或物品；描述决定或行为时应使用形容词用法。

US derogatory mildly slang

That dumbass left his keys in the car again.

那个笨蛋又把钥匙落在车里了。

dumbasses plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组

a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

同义词集: dunce dunderhead numskull blockhead bonehead lunkhead hammerhead knucklehead loggerhead muttonhead shithead dumbass fuckhead

上位: dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person

🌳 词源

由 dumb 和 ass 合成；其中 ass 可能原本指“驴”，但现代使用者也常按“屁股”来联想。

From dumb + ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the original sense within this compound noun (solid compound or 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.

🔄 变式

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