numbnuts


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numbnuts

(ˈnʌmˌnʌts) or

numbnut

n
offensive slang a stupid or despicable person
[C20: from numb + nut (sense 5)]
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Translations

numbnuts

n (US inf) → taube Nuss (inf), → (Ober)trottel m (inf)
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Just come across as a deranged, egotistical numbnuts with a huge flappy mouth like a sewage outlet pipe.
IN my experience it can be dangerous to give the numbnuts who work in television too much credit for their sense of comic timing.
Thanks a lot, numbnuts! And who's picking up the tab?
Tom pulled into a parking lot and flagged down some guys, telling them, "Numbnuts back there fell out of his chair, could you put him back in it so I can take him back to rehab?"
In their new book, Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise To Power, veteran New Jersey reporters Bob Ingle and Michael Symons seem to be suggesting it's the former, painting a mostly glowing portrait of the man who once called a state assemblyman "numbnuts." The authors use upbeat phrases like "humorous crime-buster," "blunt establishment challenger," and "a leader since childhood" to describe Christie, especially in comparison to his Democratic predecessor, Jon Corzine.
But Christie probably will remain a conservative favorite (especially outside his state) as long as he continues calling opponents "numbnuts" now and then.
For the 10 years after that, I decided that he was actually an insufferably pretentious numbnuts who banged on far too much about tantric sex and the rainforests.
Most unusual name: Numbnuts Quiz Format Round 1: Pictures of royals, or doubles.
"What have you f***ing stopped for, numbnuts?" screams Sgt Weston, almost bursting my eardrums and sending another wave of fear through my body.
Lyndon Campbell, Glyn Brown and Dean Northrop - known as the Numbnuts team - will set off from Boston in Lincolnshire tonight.
Because despite what numbnuts who've only caught snatches of the dismal late-night live streaming say, CLI just got interesting.