dumbo
/ˈdʌmbəʊ
/noun (plural dumbos) informal
A stupid person.After lengthy consideration I decided that the intellectual standard was a bit too high already for some of you dumbos out there, so instead I am starting a review column....
- Identify all the dumbos out there - in politics, in government, wherever they may find themselves - and invariably they are not readers.
- And all us poor dumbos at home in our lounge-rooms lose.
Origin
1950s (originally US): from dumb + -o, popularized by the 1941 cartoon film Dumbo.