See lunk in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which even his monarch brother reportedly doesn’t know how he pays for), joshing away at family funerals, and just sort of … riding it out, each time another of his lies about this story is exposed.",
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"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"word": "Vulgar:"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "ass"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "assclown"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "asshat"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "asshead"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "asstard"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "asswipe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "buttbreath"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dildo"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dipshit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "donkey dick"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"word": "Alternative spelling of dumbass."
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dumbfuck"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dumbfucker"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dumbshit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "farthead"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "fuck-knuckle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "fucktard"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "fuckwit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "jackass"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "peckerhead"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitbrain"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shithead"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitneck"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitwit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:idiot",
"tags": [
"Britain",
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "twat"
}
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"informal"
]
}
],
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}
],
"word": "lunk"
}
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