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dumbdom

dumbdom noun: the quality of being dumb or stupid; stupidity.

Noun

dumbdom (uncountable)

  1. (informal, possibly regarded as nonstandard) The quality of being dumb or stupid; stupidity.
    • He was a doper, the pied piper of dumbdom, always banged to the gills on some queer mix of speed, mescaline, hash or cocaine.1998, Steven Tolliday, The Rise and Fall of Mass Production, volume 2, page 64
    • We could finally say with conviction that dumbdom had a king and court complete with jokers, jesters, and dirty, old men in silk pajamas who put their own baited spin on those tumultuous waters in Hell Gate that to this day still swirl as Charybdis between Manhattan and Queens.2011, Richard Lauer, Dues and Don'ts, page 17

Origin of dumbdom

From dumb + -dom.

Questions about dumbdom

What does dumbdom mean?
Dumbdom means the quality of being dumb or stupid; stupidity.
What part of speech is dumbdom?
Dumbdom is a noun.

Words near dumbdom in the dictionary

  1. dumbclucks
  2. dumbcow
  3. dumbcowed
  4. dumbcowing
  5. dumbcows
  6. dumbdom
  7. dumbdumb
  8. dumbdumbs
  9. dumbec
  10. dumbecs
  11. dumbed

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