shit-for-brains

See also: shit for brains

English

Etymology

Canadian, from the 1950s. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪt fɚ ˌbɹeɪnz/
Audio (General American) (file)

Adjective

shit-for-brains (not comparable)

(derogatory, vulgar, colloquial) Extremely stupid.
That shit-for-brains assistant of mine lost my files again.
- 2005, In Her Shoes (film):
  Who are you crying about, the predatory prick or the shit-for-brains tramp? Because neither one deserves your tears.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid

Translations

Very stupid

Dutch: hersenloos (nl)
Finnish: paskapäinen
French: bête (fr), stupide (fr), idiot (fr)
German: saublöd (de), blöd dumm
Italian: senza cervelli, stupido (it)
Portuguese: sem cérebro
Scottish Gaelic: gun eanchainn, faoin, baoth
Spanish: descerebrado (es), subnormal (es), tonto (es)

Noun

shit-for-brains (plural shit-for-brains)

(derogatory, vulgar, colloquial) An extremely stupid person.
That new assistant of yours is a real shit-for-brains.

He's another one of those shit-for-brains.
- 2013, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, The Remake: As Time Goes By‎, Untreed Reads, →ISBN:
  Call your press conferences. Organize boycotts. Sue the shit out of me. You're gonna do for free what I would have paid you for, shit-for-brains.

References

Partridge, Dictionary of slang

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