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"A (narrow) specialist expert who is ignorant outside of their specialty, or who only looks at problems through the (blinkered) lens of their own specialty."
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"(rare) A (narrow) specialist expert who is ignorant outside of their specialty, or who only looks at problems through the (blinkered) lens of their own specialty."
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"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
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"word": "fagidiot"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "vakidioot"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"word": "fakki-idiootti"
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"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
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"word": "Fachidiot"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"word": "szakbarbár"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"word": "専門バカ"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fagidiot"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fackidiot"
}
]
}
],
"word": "fachidiot"
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],
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"translations": [
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"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fachidiot"
},
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"code": "da",
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"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "fagidiot"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vakidioot"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"word": "fakki-idiootti"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fachidiot"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"word": "szakbarbár"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"word": "専門バカ"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fagidiot"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "narrow specialist expert, ignorant outside their field",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fackidiot"
}
],
"word": "fachidiot"
}
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