köken: From blau + Auge + -ig. The metaphorical use (19th c.) is usually linked to the typically blue-eyed and fair-haired characters in naive, romanticist art. Compare blond (“stupid”). Perhaps the fact that newborns often have blue eyes may also be considered.
Es ist blauäugig, allen Versprechen der Politiker zu glauben.
köken: Inherited from Middle French beste, from Old French beste, probably partially borrowed from Classical Latin bēstia (“beast”), or less likely from an alternative Vulgar Latin bēsta (“animal”). Compare biche (probably from Old French bisse, itself from Vulgar Latin bīstia; compare Italian biscia).
aile: abêtir, âge bête, bébête, bêta, bétail, bête à Bon Dieu, bête à manger du foin, bête comme chou, bête comme ses deux pieds, bête comme ses pieds
köken: Recorded in Astrakhan and among Greben Cossacks. Discernably, a transferred meaning of Kalmyk лох (lox, “aloe vera”), which relates through the Kalmyk home in Dzungaria to Chinese 蘆薈／芦荟 (lúhuì, “aloe vera”), see it for more.
köken: Etymology tree Yiddish פֿרײַער (frayer)bor. Polish frajer Borrowed from Yiddish פֿרײַער (frayer). Doublet of frajérz. Compare Romanian fraier and Russian фра́ер (frájer).
köken: Borrowed from Northwestern Indo-Aryan, whence Punjabi ਅੱਲ੍ਹੜ (allhaṛ), from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *अल्लड (allaḍa, “childish”), of uncertain origin. Related to अल्लड़ (allaṛ), अलड़ (alaṛ), and अल्लढ़ (allaṛh). Cognate with Sindhi اَلَڙُ (alaṛu), Marathi अल्लड (allaḍ), Gujarati અલ્લડ (allaḍ) and Nepali अल्लड (allaḍ) / अल्लढ (allaḍh).
otariid, eared seal (pinniped of the family Otariidae which comprises fur seals and sea lions) · southern fur seal (pinniped of the genus Arctocephalus within Otariidae)
A sucker, patsy, or sap; an unsavvy one who accedes to all requests, plays fair, and is easily taken advantage of.
çekim: çoğul פראיירים
köken: From Odessa Yiddish פֿרײַער (frayer, “dupe, someone who is easily swindled”), itself from German Freier (“john, someone who buys sex”). Compare Russian фра́ер (frájer), Polish frajer, Romanian fraier.
(ונעשה מילואים) נשלם המיסים (ונעמוד בפקקים) אותנו לא דופקים (אנחנו בטח, בטח, בטח לא) אנחנו בטח לא פראיירים
stupid, dense, dumb, thick, dim · foolish, silly, daft
çekim: karşılaştırma dummere · üstünlük dummest
köken: From Old Danish dumb, dum, from Old Norse dumbr (“dumb”), and in the main sense stupid from German dumm. Both from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Compare Norwegian and Swedish dum, Icelandic dumbur, English dumb, Low German dumm, Dutch dom, German dumm.