bimbo
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in Italian American theater, attested 1919, as “stupid, inconsequential man”, by 1920 developed sense of “floozie, attractive and stupid woman”.[1] Popularized in 1920s by Jack Conway of entertainment magazine Variety, who also popularized baloney (“nonsense”) and palooka (“large stupid man”). Revived in popularity in 1980s US political sex scandals.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɪmbəʊ/
- (US) enPR: bĭm'bō, IPA(key): /ˈbɪmboʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪmbəʊ
Noun
[edit]bimbo (plural bimbos or bimboes)
- (derogatory, slang) A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence.
- [1972, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli, Last Tango in Paris, spoken by Paul (Marlon Brando):
- Anyway, to make a long, dull story even duller, I come from a time when a guy like me used to come into a joint like this and pick up a young chick like you and… call her a ‘bimbo’.]
- a. 1992, P. J. O’Rourke, a sketch
- A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake.
- 2004 May 3, Anthony Lane, “Looney Tunes”, in The New Yorker[1]:
- [Tina] Fey […] makes hay with the thought processes of a purebred bimbo: […]
- (derogatory, slang) A stupid or foolish person.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
- And one had to remember that most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIII:
- Isn't he the bimbo who took the bread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bimbo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English bimbo, from Italian bimbo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bimbo f (plural bimbo's, diminutive bimbootje n)
- (derogatory) bimbo (unintelligent floozie)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English bimbo, from Italian bimbo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bimbo (colloquial, derogatory)
- bimbo (moron)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of bimbo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | bimbo | bimbot | |
genitive | bimbon | bimbojen | |
partitive | bimboa | bimboja | |
illative | bimboon | bimboihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | bimbo | bimbot | |
accusative | nom. | bimbo | bimbot |
gen. | bimbon | ||
genitive | bimbon | bimbojen | |
partitive | bimboa | bimboja | |
inessive | bimbossa | bimboissa | |
elative | bimbosta | bimboista | |
illative | bimboon | bimboihin | |
adessive | bimbolla | bimboilla | |
ablative | bimbolta | bimboilta | |
allative | bimbolle | bimboille | |
essive | bimbona | bimboina | |
translative | bimboksi | bimboiksi | |
abessive | bimbotta | bimboitta | |
instructive | — | bimboin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “bimbo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of bambino (“child”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bimbo m (plural bimbi, feminine bimba, diminutive bimbétto or bimbìno, augmentative bimbóne)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: bimbo
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English bimbo, from Italian.
Noun
[edit]bimbo m (definite singular bimboen, indefinite plural bimboer, definite plural bimboene)
References
[edit]- “bimbo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English bimbo, from Italian.
Noun
[edit]bimbo m (definite singular bimboen, indefinite plural bimboar, definite plural bimboane)
References
[edit]- “bimbo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bimbo
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]bimbo
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]bimbo c
- (derogatory) bimbo (attractive and stupid young woman)
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | bimbo | bimbos |
definite | bimbon | bimbons | |
plural | indefinite | bimbos, bimbon | bimbos, bimbons |
definite | bimborna | bimbornas |
References
[edit]- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪmbəʊ
- Rhymes:English/ɪmbəʊ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English derogatory terms
- English slang
- English terms with quotations
- en:People
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms derived from Italian
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Dutch derogatory terms
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/imbo
- Rhymes:Finnish/imbo/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish derogatory terms
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/imbo
- Rhymes:Italian/imbo/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Italian
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål derogatory terms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Italian
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk derogatory terms
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/imbɔ
- Rhymes:Polish/imbɔ/2 syllables
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish noun forms
- Poznań Polish
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish derogatory terms