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pea-brain

pea-brain is the alternative form of peabrain.

Meaning of peabrain

Noun

peabrain (plural peabrains)

  1. (derogatory, informal) A stupid or clumsy person; a cretin.
  2. (derogatory, informal) The brain of such a person.
    • Bungo would gladly have put a bullet in Mr. King's little pea brain.1986 January 1, Heather Robertson, Lily : A Rhapsody in Red: Volume 2 The King Years, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, page 113

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Forms of pea-brain

Noun
pluralpea-brains
Adjective
comparativemore pea-brain
superlativemost pea-brain

Questions about pea-brain

What is pea-brain the alternative form of?
Pea-brain is the alternative form of peabrain.

Words near pea-brain in the dictionary

  1. pea soupers
  2. pea soups
  3. pea wet
  4. pea whistle
  5. pea whistles
  6. pea-brain
  7. pea-brained
  8. pea-brains
  9. pea-cake
  10. pea-cakes
  11. pea-coated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pea-brain (page history and authors); peabrain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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