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Today I’m going to show you 8 different slang words that you can use to say that a person is stupid. And let me say this very clearly. I’m not talking about people who have learning disabilities or anything like that. When I say stupid here I’m referring to people whose behavior is obviously foolish. And to me that signifies that the person is stupid.
Here are the example sentences. To get the details of this English lesson, you need to listen to the podcast or check the transcript for the details.
- The first word is airhead. Air…head. You can imagine that this kind of person has only air in their head and no brains. He’s an airhead.
- Next is a birdbrain. Think about how small a bird’s brain is. A person who is a birdbrain has a very small brain. He’s a birdbrain.
- Next up is a bonehead. The bone in your head is called the skull. Well, if you only had bone in your head instead of a skull and a brain you would be a bonehead, and that would make you very stupid. He’s a bonehead.
- The next word is dimwit. Dim means not bright. For example, compared to the lights in an office or a school, a candle is dim. So dim means a low level of light. Well, wit means intelligence. If we put them together, dim means low level… wit means intelligence…so a dimwit is a person with a low level of intelligence. That guy is a dimwit.
- Next is knucklehead. Your knuckle is the place where your fingers meet the back of your hand and the bone is very close to the skin. But basically, in your knuckle it’s just skin and bone, so we use that image and we say that the person is a knucklehead. He’s a knucklehead.
- Next up is peabrain. A pea a very tiny, round, green vegetable, so we imagine that a person who is stupid must have a pea for a brain. That guy is a peabrain.
- The next word is pinhead. A pin is a very sharp, thin, tiny piece of metal. Very tiny. Like a very tiny brain. He’s a pinhead!
- The last one for today and one of my favorite expressions is dumb ass. Now I have to warn you, the word ass is a slang word which means the part of your body where you sit. But before ass picked up that meaning, ass meant donkey, and a donkey is not a very intelligent animal… or so they say. So a dumb ass is a not very intelligent animal that is not intelligent. He’s a dumb ass.
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Definition: being a dunderhead
What is a dunder, and why do we use this word to insult people in a somewhat mild fashion? Alas, this is but one more unknowable in a long line of things that etymology has not yet figured out. It may come from the Dutch word for “thunder” (donder), but no one is sure about that. What we are sure about is that there are a great number of words for “stupid” or “stupid person” ending in —headed or head. A partial list includes the following: airhead, beefheaded, beetleheaded, blockhead, bonehead, bullhead, bubblehead, buffle-headed, butthead, chucklehead, deadhead, fathead, flathead, hammerhead, heavy-headed, idleheaded, ironhead, jolt-headed, jughead, knucklehead, loggerheaded, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, pinhead, pinheaded, ramhead, saphead, sheepheaded, sheepshead, thickhead, and wooden-headed.
Thus I pass away the time, and this lulls me on to drudge on the end of the Chapter with this Dunderheaded Master of mine, who to my knowledge is more a Madman than a Knight.
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (anon. trans.), 1703
Definition: stupid, silly
Here we have a lovely example of a word which began its life (in our language, at least) with a figurative meaning, and only took on a literal one after more than a century of use. Anserine comes from the Latin anser, meaning «goose.» The word is indeed used on occasion to mean «resembling a goose,» but the ‘silly as a goose’ sense preceded this by a considerable length of time.
I am not of such anserin stupidity, but that I could make as ignominions at reorsion upon my adversary.
— John Menzies, Roma Mendax, 1675
Definition: a stupid, slow-witted, or obtuse person
The original meaning of blinkard was “one that blinks with or as if with weak eyes,” which soon added the pejorative meaning listed above. If you are a person who blinks often please accept our apologies for the English language, which can on occasion be needlessly cruel.
Poore foolish Blinkard, Beads-man vnto Christ,
For restitution of long lacked sight,
I maruaile what they fancie so inticte,
To be desirous of this lothsome light?
— Samuel Nicholson, Acolastus his After-witte, 1600
Definition: complete or utter ignorance
Ignoration is not just a fancified word for «ignorance,» but also refers specifically to «an act or action of ignoring.»
I haue compleyned before of the ignorance of Greik, & Latine tounges, the Ignoration whereof, no doute, hes moued vs a great part of this busines, specialie hauing to do with men that vnderstandeth not the proprietie of them.
— George Hay, The Confutation of the Abbote of Crosraguels Masse, 1563
Definition: stupid and confused, mixed up, or eccentric
The pate portion of addlepated comes from an older word for «head,» in use since Middle English, and of uncertain origin. The addle portion may be traced back to the Old English word adela, meaning “filth, filthy or foul-smelling place.” As an adjective addle first had the meaning of “foul smelling and putrid” (specifically said of an egg), and later came to mean “confused or muddled.”
Those who belong to Madam Luna, as Hawkers of Almanacks and Pamphlets, Huntsmen, Ostridge-Catchers, Falkoners, Couriers, Salt-carriers, Lunaticks, Maggotty Fools, Crackbrain’d Coxcombs, Addle|pated Frantic Wights, Giddy Whimsical Foplings, Exchange-Brokers, Post-boys, Footboys, Tennis Court-keepers-Boys, Glassmongers, Light-horse, Watermen, Mariners, Messengers, Rakers and Glea|ners, will not long stay in a place this year.
— François Rabelais, The Fifth Book of the Works of Francis Rabelis (trans. by P. M.), 1694
Definition: exhibiting or characterized by nescience: ignorant, agnostic
Nescient, science, and omniscient (“having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight”) all share a root: each comes in part from the Latin word scire, meaning “to know.” Nescience, then, is «lack of knowledge or awareness.»
True it is that he offends more hainously, that sins through knowledge, then he that slips through Ignorance: but we may not therefore flie to Ignorance for an excuse: for ’tis one thing to be [H] nescient, ano|ther to be wilfully Ignorant.
— Robert Dyer, The Christian’s Theorico-Practicon, 1633
Definition: an act of foolishness or stupidity
Bêtise came to English from the French word bête, which has the meaning in that language of «idiot,» or, more literally, «beast» (the literal meaning of bête is the one found in the term bête noire). In addition to an act of stupidity, bêtise may refer to stupidity or ignorance in general.
«I assure you,» said she «I was only tormenting you a little, and you must own you deserve that; but you can’t suppose I meant half what I said; that is a bêtise I can’t conceive you guilty of.”
— Susan Ferrier, Marriage 1818
Stupid is as stupid does …
Let’s be honest: other people can grate on our nerves sometimes. It’s unavoidable. But it’s nice to know that English provides us with some helpfully descriptive words that we can use for those forehead-slapping moments when we just need to vent about our fellow humans. Let’s break down a few of our favorites here.
Note that tone is key—vocal inflection, volume, and context can communicate as much as the word itself!
dumb
Dumb is used commonly, and as insults go it’s fairly benign. Defined as “lacking intelligence or good judgment, stupid, or dull-witted,” you can usually get away with using this one in a wide range of contexts if you’re not too harsh in the delivery.
Interestingly, in Old English dumb specifically referred to people who were mute, or otherwise unable to speak. The contemporary sense of dumb as “stupid” came into common usage in the 1800s.
dope
Slang being what it is, dope has numerous senses, not all of which are negative. But when you want to cut a little deeper, a dope is “a person considered to be stupid or slow-witted.” Example: “Only a dope would refuse this opportunity.”
This notion of dope as “thick-headed” came from early-1800s American English, when dope meant “a thick sauce or gravy.” Mmm, delicious dope.
fool
The modern definition for a fool is “a silly or stupid person, or a person who lacks judgment or sense.”
This sense is likely influenced by the term’s secondary definition as “a professional jester,” formerly kept by persons of noble or royal rank for amusement. But fool’s etymological roots actually go way back to Vulgar Latin, when it meant “windbag, empty-headed person.” Talk about an insult.
brainless
Welp, there isn’t much room to misinterpret brainless. Inflection won’t swerve this one in a different direction. When someone’s brainless, they’re “mentally weak, foolish, witless, and stupid,” i.e., lacking a brain. Ouch.
idiot
This one’s a classic. Since the 1300s, idiot has been used to describe people who are “so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning.” These days, we define it slightly less cuttingly as “an utterly foolish or senseless person.” Use this when you really want to go after someone.
One appropriately harsh example: “If you think you can wear that outfit to a job interview and get hired, you’re an idiot.“
moron
This one seems mild, but it has sharper edges than you might think.
A moron refers to “a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment.” In the early 1900s, though, it was used as a technical term in psychology to mean “one of the highest class of feeble-minded persons,” and was further defined as “an adult with a mental age between 8 and 12.” Brutal.
Thankfully it’s no longer in use in the medical field as it’s now considered offensive, but be sure to keep historical context in mind when you sling this one around.
half-wit
This one’s fairly self explanatory. Dating from 1635, half-wit describes someone who’s “feeble-minded, foolish, and stupid,” or someone who only has half of their wits. Half is better than none, we suppose.
mindless
A good cousin to “brainless”, mindless means “without intelligence, senseless, a mindless creature.” Seems like one you’d mutter under your breath rather than saying out loud, no?
thick
Thick is about as descriptive as it gets, and humans have been using it as an insult meaning “stupid” since the 1500s. Rooted in the Old English term for “dense; viscous,” thick is defined as “mentally slow; dull.” A fitting term for when someone just isn’t getting it.
For even more ways to vent your frustration, explore more insulting synonyms on Thesaurus.com.
Nothing worse than working or being with a stupid person. They might hinder you or, at the very least, annoy you. While you might have the patience to deal with them, you sometimes can’t help yourself and just lash out hard. You might be running out of creative ways to say stupid to someone so here are some British slang words just for that. Enjoy reading!
British Slang For Stupid Person (in Alphabetical Order)
Berk
Meaning:
- (Noun) This is mostly derogatory but sometimes endearing slang substitutes the words “fool” and “idiot.” It comes from the shortening of Berkeley Hunt.
- Example: You’re an old berk. You make mistakes but we will always be there for you.
Charlie
Meaning:
- (Noun) A British and Australian slang that describes a silly and foolish person.
- Example: You were Charlie at the party. Everyone was laughing at your antics.
Daft
Meaning:
- (Noun) While it may mean merry in Scotland, this British slang has been used to point to a foolish person, like Charlie.
- Example: You might be a tad bit daft but a college is a place where you can reinvent yourself.
Dipstick
Meaning:
- (Noun) In the UK, when you say a person is a “dipstick,” you are implying that they are of lower or inferior intellect.
- Example: My dog is a bit of a dipstick. He is lovable but all of his actions dumbfounded me.
Divvy
Meaning:
- (Noun) A humorous way of calling a person foolish or idiotic, especially if you are friends in the UK.
- Example: My pal is a bit of a divvy. He might make you laugh but he might also leave you scratching your heads.
Dozy
Meaning:
- (Noun) This English term originally meant someone sleepy or half-awake. When you are in that state, you may be very idiotic. This is the reason why it is used as slang for stupid people.
- Example: The anesthetic hasn’t worn off and I’m still acting like a dozy.
Eejit
Meaning:
- (Noun) In Scottish and Irish areas, you might encounter this slang. Worry not as it is simply referring to “idiot.” Even the pronunciation is almost the same.
- Example: You are an eejit! Why would you place the sugar into the gas tank because of some Youtube challenge?
Gobshite
Meaning:
- (Noun) This Irish slang is something that should not be said easily towards people. It is vulgar slang that blatantly calls a person incompetent and idiotic.
- Example: Gobshite! I never should have trusted you with these files.
Pillock
Meaning:
- (Noun) Potentially derived from bollocks, this UK slang is simply a stupid person.
- Example: You pillock! You shouldn’t mix the laundry! Everything will get ruined.
Plank
Meaning:
- (Noun) An idiot. In British terms, when you are a plank, you are a piece of wood without any proper thinking capacity.
- Example: I think Gordon Ramsey always calls someone a plank in each episode.
Thicko
Meaning:
- (Noun) When used in Britain, a thicko refers to a person that is slow in understanding and acting.
- Example: Thickos, like myself, are always dense and find it hard to comprehend stuff. Please have patience with me.
Twit
Meaning:
- (Noun) An insulting British slang that is arguably one of the more popular slang words to come out of the UK. It is a taunt that refers to a fool.
- Example: You Twit! You were so busy with your phone that you forgot about the chicken!
Here are some ways of calling someone ‘stupid’:
A Few Clowns Short of a Circus
A Few Fries Short of a Happy Meal
An Experiment in Artificial Stupidity
A Few Beers Short of a Six-Pack
Dumber Than a Box of Hair
A Few Peas Short of a Casserole
Doesn’t Have All Her Cornflakes in One Box
The Wheel’s Spinning, But the Hamsters Dead
One Fruit Loop Shy of a Full Bowl
One Taco Short of a Combination Plate
A Few Feathers Short of a Whole Duck
All Foam, No Beer
The Cheese Slid Off Her Cracker
Body by Fisher, Brains by Mattel
Couldn’t Pour Water Out of a Boot With Instructions on the Heel
He Fell Out of the Stupid Tree and Hit Every Branch on the Way Down
An Intellect Rivaled Only by Garden Tools
As Smart as Bait
Chimney’s Clogged
Doesn’t Have All His Dogs on One Leash
Doesn’t Know Much but Leads the League in Nostril Hair
Elevator Doesn’t Go All the Way to the Top Floor
Forgot to Pay Her Brain Bill
Her Sewing Machine’s Out of Thread
His Antenna Doesn’t Pick Up All the Channels
His Belt Doesn’t Go Through All the Loops
If She Had Another Brain, It Would be Lonely
Missing a Few Buttons on His Remote Control
No Grain in the Silo
Proof That Evolution Can Go in Reverse
Receiver is off the Hook
Several Nuts Short of a Full Pouch
Skylight Leaks a Little
Slinky’s Kinked
Surfing in Nebraska
Too Much Yardage Between the Goal Posts
Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer
The Lights are on, but Nobody’s Home
24 Cents Short of a Quarter
by alvit October 27, 2009
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1. lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
2. characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question.
3. tediously dull, esp. due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party.
4. annoying or irritating; troublesome: Turn off that stupid radio.
5. in a state of stupor; stupefied: stupid from fatigue.
6. Slang. excellent; terrific.
Jim & Karen Santiniello are stupid.
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I’m hard-pressed to think of a POSITIVE word for «stupid». How could being stupid be a good thing? (Well, it might be good for me for someone else to be stupid, so that I can defeat him in some competition or take advantage of him, but it’s not good for him.)
The closest to a postive word that I can think of is «simple». Like you might say, «Yeah, yeah, you have all these complex arguments, but I’m a simple guy, it just seems to me that …» «Simple» is sometimes used when you want to say that another person is being too clever, perhaps making something more complicated than it needs to be, or is trying to fool others by using fancy language to cover up a fallacy.
A common euphemism is «slow». As in, «We’ll be offerring tutoring sessions to help the slow students pass this class.» When I was in school it was common to talk about the smart kids as «gifted students» and the dumb kids as «slow students». I don’t know if these terms are still common.
Another euphemism was that class for less-smart kids were called «special education», and so the kids were called «special».
You could use «silly» or «cute» in some contexts.
But in general, I’d avoid looking for any word that means anything remotely like «stupid» if you’re trying to keep a conversation friendly. Maybe there’s a word in Spanish that would be perceived in a friendly way, but I don’t think there’s such a word in English. You can try to make it less offensive by using euphemisms, but it’s still an insult.
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For years people have used the word «retarded» as an insult that means stupid on the level I’m talking about, but it was also used to describe those with downs syndrome so while I agree that sucks and isn’t fair to them, we still need a word that has enough intensity and vulgarity to give the same connotation that «the R word» once had. Without a replacement of sufficient «umph» and impact it makes it difficult for anyone to quit using its predecessor. For example, when some rule is so thoughtless, so irrational, so imposing and disruptive that it makes you furious at just how stupid, how absurd it is and how obnoxiously dumb the person who decided to create the rule surely must be, that we would say this person is ______. What? We need a word and it needs a certain level of vulgarity and impact to make anyone flinch. The word preposterous is simply not enough.
Наблюдая за тем, как люди общаются на английском в Интернете, мы сделали одно открытие – слово «stupid» (дурак, тупой) пользуется огромной популярностью, причем его применяют не только к людям. Нет конца списка вещей или людей, называемых stupid в устной и письменной речи, например:
- The government and parliament are stupid. – правительство и парламент глупы.
- All the girls are stupid. – все девушки глупые.
- April Fool’s Day is boring and stupid. – первое апреля — глупый и скучный праздник.
- Reading is stupid. – чтение бессмысленно.
- Classical and pop-music is stupid. – классическая и поп-музыка дурацкая.
- Riding a horse is stupid. – кататься на лошади глупо.
Странно, почему англо-язычные люди используют именно stupid, тогда как английский язык богат десятками слов, выражающих различные степени и оттенки глупости (stupidity).
Для начала рассмотрим значение самого слова «stupid». Некоторые расценивают его как антоним слова intelligent (умный), но на самом деле это неверно. Intelligent people (умные/интеллигентные люди) часто говорят и делают stupid things (глупости).
Слово «Stupid» происходит от латинского прилагательного stupidus, которое в свою очередь происходит от латинского глагола stupere, «быть ошеломленным или оцепеневшим». Английское «stupid» все еще используется в данном значении, например, человек может быть stupid (оцепенеть) от удара по голове, “stupid with grief” (ошеломлен или удручен горем), “stupid with sleep” (заторможенным от сна) “stupid from lack of sleep” (от недосыпа) или “stupid with drink” (одурманенный алкоголем). В этом контексте stupidity (глупость) является временным явлением. Оно вызвано ослабленной способностью думать и реагировать нормально.
Но чаще всего, в устной речи, когда слово stupid применяется к человеку, оно означает “медленное умственное восприятие.” Человек, которого называют stupid, попросту тупой (slow-witted), мозг которого не способен быстро переваривать информацию. Если stupid применяется к предметам, вещам или понятиям, значит, они скучны (dull), неинтересны (uninteresting) или необдуманны (ill-considered).
Синонимы слова stupid
Существует множество синонимов слову stupid. Если необходимо отметить ошибочное или необдуманное, в серьезных обсуждениях, литературы, личных отношений и общественных дел используются следующие слова:
- Unintelligent – невежественный
- Foolish – глупый, безрассудный, нелепый
- Vacuous – праздный, пустой, бессодержательный
- Vapid – скучный, неинтересный
- Obtuse – тупой, бестолковый
- Nonsensical – бессмысленный, нелепый, тупой
- Unwise – неблагоразумный, неразумный
- Injudicious – необдуманный, неразумный
- Inane – пустой, глупый
- Absurd – абсурдный, нелепый
- Fatuous – дурацкий, глупый, бессмысленный
- Asinine – глупый, упрямый, ослиный
- Unthinking – легкомысленный, необдуманный
- ill-advised – опрометчивый, неразумный, необдуманный
- ill-considered – неразумный, непродуманный
- ludicrous – нелепый, смешной, курьезный
- ridiculous – нелепый, смехотворный
- laughable – забавный, смешной
- risible – смешной, смехотворный
Некоторые слова, приемлемые для разговорной речи, считаются неприемлемыми для формальной, потому что они когда-то использовались для описания различных умственных отклонений, например:
- idiotic – идиотский, дурацкий
- imbecilic – имбецильный
- moronic – слабоумный, идиотский
- cretinous – идиотский, слабоумный, кретинический
Примечание: слова ignorant и dumb также используются в разговорной речи для обозначения «слабоумный», но это неудачный выбор. Каждый может быть ignorant (грубый, невоспитанный, темный, неотесанный) в некоторых областях, т.е. основное значение ignorant – недостаточные знания. Аналогично, dumb также обладает значением, не имеющим отношения к умственным способностям – это «неспособность говорить». Интеллигентный, хорошо осведомленный человек также может по какой-то причине и на какое-то время стать немым, потерять дар речи, хотя бы в переносном смысле.
Некоторые слова, подразумевающие замедленное мышление, также несут в себе значение смехотворности и пренебрежения:
- dense – глупый или тупой
- doltish – придурковатый или тупой
- thick, thickheaded – тупоголовый
- dim, dimwitted – недалекий, тупоголовый, тупой
- dopey – глупый, тупой, вялый
- dozy – ленивый, тупой
- pea-brained – бестолковый, безмозглый
- half-witted – полоумный
- brain-dead – рассеянный, глупый
- bone-headed – дурацкий, тупой
- daft – слабоумный, безрассудный
- crazy – сумасшедший
- cracked – выживший из ума, помешанный
- half-baked – придурковатый
- dimwitted – тупоголовый, неумный
- cockeyed – бестолковый, дурацкий
- harebrained – бездумный, с куриными мозгами
- lamebrained – тупой, глупый
- nutty – психованный, помешанный
- batty cuckoo – тронутый, спятивший
- simple-minded – простодушный, глуповатый
- loony – полоумный, сумасшедший
- loopy – чокнутый
И, наконец, несколько прилагательных обозначают глупость без смехотворности, хотя бы в кругу друзей. Вот они:
- daft – спятивший, свихнувшийся
- dopey – одурманенный
- dozy – ленивый, тупой
- scatter-brained – ветреный, рассеянный, легкомысленный
- nutty – рехнувшийся
- batty – тронутый, сумасшедший
- cuckoo – глупец, разиня
- loony – полоумный, сумасшедший
- loopy – чокнутый
P.S. Хотя в английском языке такой потрясающий выбор слов, касающихся слабоумия, очень часто STUPID – это единственное слово, приносящее настоящее удовлетворение, и в полной мере отражающее настроение говорящего.
We’ve all heard a clever and witty way to describe someone who isn’t too bright or who acts a bit unusual. Here’s a collection of some of the best funny expressions for describing people who are a little, um, what’s the delicate way to say it? Stupid. Gee, I wish there were another way to say that…
- He’s one taco short of a combo plate.
- A few beans short of a chalupa.
- one sandwich short of a picnic
- A few beers short of a six-pack
- One brick short of a load
- A few cards short of a deck.
- A few bees short of a hive.
- He’s one chopstick short.
- He’s one egg roll short of a Pu Pu Platter.
More expressions that are nicer ways of saying someone is strange, stupid, dumb or not very bright or smart.
- His rocket isn’t working on all thrusters.
- Redefined the term “Third Grader”.
- Needs jumper cable leads on her skull.
- Slept his way up the food chain.
- Check the air pressure in her head.
- The only thing that keeps it from going in one ear and out the other is the “For Rent” sign in the middle.
- In the event of a water landing, his skull may be used as a flotation device.
- Couldn’t find his butt with both hands if it had a bell on it.
- Someone needs to spackle her mouth closed before the rest of her intelligence escapes.
- He is a few fries short of a happy meal.
- His wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead.
- Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, but he just gargled.
- His antenna does not pick up all the channels.
- His brain downloads at dial up but uploads at high speed.
- His receiver is off the hook.
- He’s all foam no beer.
- He’s one coffee bean short of a cappuccino.
- As smart as bait.
- I think his slinky is so kinked it won’t slink.
- I think his skylight leaks a little.
- That boy doesn’t have all his dogs on one leash.
- I think her sewing machine is out of thread.
- That guy has a bit too much yardage between the goal posts.
- If brains were taxed, he’d get a refund.
- He’s eating with only one chopstick.
- Keeps his brain in good condition.
- not playing with a full deck
- to have bats in the belfrey
- to have kangeroo loose in the top paddock
- as crazy as a sack full of ferrets
- out to lunch
- as nutty as a fruit cake
- as mad as a hatter
- his elevator doesn’t quite go to the top floor
- the lights are on, but nobody’s home
- he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- He’s 1 peanut short of a snickers
- He’s not hitting on all six cylinders
- He’s screw already hit the floor.
- His brother was an only child.
- Pretty house, but nobody’s home.
- He’s got a hole in his bag of marbles.
- I think his screen is missing a few pixels.
- His cord doesn’t quite reach the outlet.
- He’s a few channels short of cable.
- If clues were shoes he’d be barefooted.
- If his brains were dynamite, he couldn’t blow his nose.
- She can speak 200 words a minute with gusts up to 300.
- He has verbal diarrhea and mental constipation.
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