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cretin.

A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɹɛtɪn/UK/ˈkɹiːtɪn/US/ˈkɹɛtɪn/US
  1. A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.

    archaic
  2. An idiot.

    broadly · derogatory
Where this word comes from

From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.

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