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a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
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- n. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- 1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. 2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character. 3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]
- A word/modern">modern word/transliteration">transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovahin the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal godof the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe isthe spelling now generally adopted by scholars.
- n:100 n. one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift n. a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance