cretin
noun /ˈkretɪn/
/ˈkriːtn/
(informal, offensive)- a very stupid person
- Why did you do that, you cretin?
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French crétin, from Swiss French crestin ‘Christian’ (from Latin Christianus), here used to mean ‘human being’, apparently as a reminder that, though deformed, cretins were human and not beasts.