20 Old Words for Ignorant People
When it firstcameinto English in the 1150s , idiotmeant “ uneducated , unlearned someone . ” It was n’t long before the term was being applied to people with intellectual disabilities “ as [ a ] technical [ descriptor ] in medical , educational , and regulative contexts,”according toMerriam - Webster . The use ofidiotin that sense is considered nauseous today . But there are raft of other oldwordsand idiom you could utilise for citizenry who have no common sense without offending anyone ( other than them , at least ) ....