cretin
/ˈkretɪn/noun
1- a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse)（骂人话）笨蛋, 傻瓜。
1.1
- Medicine, dated a person who is deformed and mentally handicapped because of congenital thyroid deficiency【医】〈旧〉 （先天性甲状腺缺陷引起的）呆小病者, 克汀病者, 愚侏病者。
派生词
cretinism
nouncretinous
adjective词源
late 18th cent.:from French crétin, from Swiss French crestin 'Christian' （from Latin Christianus）, here used to mean 'human being', apparently as a reminder that, though deformed, cretins were human and not beasts.