•Someone with low intelligence; an idiot. · A type of bucket hat, popular among Israeli Jews until the 1970s, particularly among kibbutzniks and members of youth movements.
club, cudgel (heavy stick intended for use as a weapon) · mallet (type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material) · maul (heavy, long-handled hammer)
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъlbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *stl̥b-, an ablaut variant of *stelb (“post, pole, jamb”) (whence also stilbs, q.v.), from *stel- (“to put in a standing position, to erect; standing, immobile, stiff”) with an extra b. The semantic evolution was probably: “motionless, stiff” > “surprised, stunned” > “stupid”. Cognates include Old Irish borb (“foolish, silly”), Latvian…