nice-but-dim
/ˌnʌɪs bət ˈdɪm/British informal
adjective
Designating a person regarded as foolish, incompetent, and ingenuous, while also being utterly good-natured and unmalicious.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The Guardian. From nice + but + dim.
- pitch-blackness
- pitchblende
- pitch block
- pitch-board
- pitch-brown
- pitch-cap
- pitch-capping
- pitch chain
- pitch circle
- pitch coal
- pitch contour
- pitch control
- pitch count
- pitch curve
- pitch-dark
- pitch darkness
- pitch diameter
- pitched battle
- pitcher
- pitcherful
- pitcher-house
- pitchering
- pitcher-mold
- pitcher-molding
- pitcher-mould