ETYM Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.
1. A container that is usually woven and has handles; SYN. handbasket.
2. A score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop; SYN. field goal.
3. Horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball; SYN. basketball hoop, hoop.
4. The quantity contained in a basket; SYN. basketful.
An idiot; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
ETYM French crétin; of uncertain origin.
1. One afflicted with cretinism.
2. A dolt; a stupid person.
3. Mentally and physically deficient person, generally a large-headed dwarf, whose condition is due to deficient thyroid secretion.
ETYM French idiot, Latin idiota an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Greek idioths, also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, from idios proper, peculiar. Related to Idiom.
A person of subnormal intelligence; SYN. imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard.
1. A thick or muddled head
2. A dull or stupid person; dunce