"chinless wonder" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "The term is derived from the characteristic recessive chin of some aristocrats, popularly thought to be caused by inbreeding and associated with limited intelligence, and from the idea of a robust chin being an indication of masculinity. The use of 'wonder' is ironic.",
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    {
      "form": "chinless wonders",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
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            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 31, page 18",
          "text": "This was probably the most insufferable social event of a very dull season. The bride blushingly gave her age as forty-two, but the old battle-axe could have been an eye-witness to the San Francisco Fire. At long last, little Dagmar's folks have got her married off to Morty, the chinless wonder. He couldn't hold down a job as grocery clerk, and will be manager of father-in-law's wholesale grocery firm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, The Assistant Librarian, volumes 60–61, page 24",
          "text": "She is thin, starved to near perfection […] He, a chinless wonder, a credit to Carnaby Street; they stand hand in hand before the enquiry desk",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, The Spectator, volume 243, number 1, page 25",
          "text": "[Actor] John Harding personified the idle spirit of the times as a tennis-possessed chinless wonder.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ineffectual upper-class man, typically dim-witted and of a weak or indecisive character, frequently one who gained his position through nepotism or social connections."
      ],
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          "upper-class",
          "upper class"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, derogatory) An ineffectual upper-class man, typically dim-witted and of a weak or indecisive character, frequently one who gained his position through nepotism or social connections."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "upper-class twit"
        }
      ],
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        "British",
        "derogatory"
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    }
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  "word": "chinless wonder"
}

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  "etymology_text": "The term is derived from the characteristic recessive chin of some aristocrats, popularly thought to be caused by inbreeding and associated with limited intelligence, and from the idea of a robust chin being an indication of masculinity. The use of 'wonder' is ironic.",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:People"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 31, page 18",
          "text": "This was probably the most insufferable social event of a very dull season. The bride blushingly gave her age as forty-two, but the old battle-axe could have been an eye-witness to the San Francisco Fire. At long last, little Dagmar's folks have got her married off to Morty, the chinless wonder. He couldn't hold down a job as grocery clerk, and will be manager of father-in-law's wholesale grocery firm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, The Assistant Librarian, volumes 60–61, page 24",
          "text": "She is thin, starved to near perfection […] He, a chinless wonder, a credit to Carnaby Street; they stand hand in hand before the enquiry desk",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, The Spectator, volume 243, number 1, page 25",
          "text": "[Actor] John Harding personified the idle spirit of the times as a tennis-possessed chinless wonder.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ineffectual upper-class man, typically dim-witted and of a weak or indecisive character, frequently one who gained his position through nepotism or social connections."
      ],
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        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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          "upper-class",
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        "(British, derogatory) An ineffectual upper-class man, typically dim-witted and of a weak or indecisive character, frequently one who gained his position through nepotism or social connections."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "upper-class twit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chinless wonder"
}