"induhvidual" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-induhvidual.ogg [Australia] Forms: induhviduals [plural]
Etymology: Blend of individual + duh. In 1995, Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams asked readers of the Dilbert Newsletter to come up with a "good derogatory nickname for non-DNRC [Dogbert's New Ruling Class, the official Dilbert fanclub] people" that "should sound harmless and endearing but have a clever double meaning", ultimately selecting "induhvidual" (submitted by "Heather of Beantown") as the winning entry. Issues of the newsletter since then have included a section called "True Tales of Induhviduals" featuring reader-contributed stories about people doing foolish things. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|individual|duh}} Blend of individual + duh Head templates: {{en-noun}} induhvidual (plural induhviduals)
  1. (slang, derogatory) A foolish person, especially one whose blundering creates difficulty for others. Tags: derogatory, slang
    Sense id: en-induhvidual-en-noun-NyWtFauz Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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