simpleton
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He was a soldier simpleton who appeared in comic drawings about life in the army in the 1890s.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024
And not in the simpleton type of way.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023
The “New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,” defines it as a shortened version of simpleton, so the phrase’s original meaning is rooted in calling someone stupid.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020
He may have been seen as a visionary by a few, but many more dismissed him as a simpleton.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020
Then I would bring out the rice, and measure it, and run the grain through my fingers for sheer love of it, fondling it like a simpleton.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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