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{
"etymology_text": "From the saying “Every village has its village idiot”, alleged to be an old Yiddish proverb.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "village idiots",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "village idiot (plural village idiots)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Stock characters",
"orig": "en:Stock characters",
"parents": [
"Fictional characters",
"Fiction",
"Artistic works",
"Art",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1825, The Abduction; Or, the Adventures of Major Sarney: A Story of the Times of Charles the Second, volume II, Charles Knight, page 170",
"text": "It is true that the Doocot was occasionally appropriated to other purposes than that of a tolbooth for the sorner, the drunken gipsy, the village idiot at the change of the moon, the swearing bluegown, and the contumacious birdnester on the sabbath; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 14, Charlie Nash, “How Jordan Peterson became the internet's village idiot”, in New Statesman",
"text": "Then [Jordan] Peterson transformed; whether due to a well-documented health crisis, or due to his non-stop tweeting, he has, in recent years, unwittingly become a 21st-century village idiot.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour."
],
"id": "en-village_idiot-en-noun-PkfevuHb",
"links": [
[
"stupidity",
"stupidity"
],
[
"ignorant",
"ignorant"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "village bike"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "landsbytosse"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dorpsgek"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "külahull"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "typerys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "idiot du village"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dorftrottel"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "shotéh hakfár",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "שוטה הכפר"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "falu bolondja"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scemo del villaggio"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "selska budála",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "селска буда́ла"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wiejski głupek"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "idiota da vila"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prostul satului"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gorodskój sumasšédšij",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "городско́й сумасше́дший"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tonto del pueblo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "byfåne"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "doarpsgek"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"village idiot"
]
}
],
"word": "village idiot"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From the saying “Every village has its village idiot”, alleged to be an old Yiddish proverb.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "village idiots",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "village idiot (plural village idiots)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "village bike"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Stock characters"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1825, The Abduction; Or, the Adventures of Major Sarney: A Story of the Times of Charles the Second, volume II, Charles Knight, page 170",
"text": "It is true that the Doocot was occasionally appropriated to other purposes than that of a tolbooth for the sorner, the drunken gipsy, the village idiot at the change of the moon, the swearing bluegown, and the contumacious birdnester on the sabbath; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 14, Charlie Nash, “How Jordan Peterson became the internet's village idiot”, in New Statesman",
"text": "Then [Jordan] Peterson transformed; whether due to a well-documented health crisis, or due to his non-stop tweeting, he has, in recent years, unwittingly become a 21st-century village idiot.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour."
],
"links": [
[
"stupidity",
"stupidity"
],
[
"ignorant",
"ignorant"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"village idiot"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "landsbytosse"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dorpsgek"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "külahull"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "typerys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "idiot du village"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dorftrottel"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "shotéh hakfár",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "שוטה הכפר"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "falu bolondja"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scemo del villaggio"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "selska budála",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "селска буда́ла"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wiejski głupek"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "idiota da vila"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prostul satului"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gorodskój sumasšédšij",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "городско́й сумасше́дший"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tonto del pueblo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "byfåne"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "person widely known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour",
"word": "doarpsgek"
}
],
"word": "village idiot"
}
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