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Bimbo, Mimbo, and Mumbo Jumbo
by Akira Kato
July 6, 2003
Bimbo (plural: bimbos)
Etymology In Italian it means “baby or little child”; in English it denotes “childlike thinker”. In the early 20th century, it entered the US slang for a person of either sex. It simply meant a person in a contemptuous or general sense. It gradually come to mean a woman who is physically attractive, but empty-headed. Some say, in the 1910s, it originally meant “fellow, chap” from the Italian variant of bambino—meaning “baby”—first in Italian-accented theater dialogue. Some used it to mean a “stupid, inconsequential man, contemptible person”. By 1920 the sense of “floozie” had developed, popularized by Variety staffer Jack Conway. It came to light again during 1980s when U.S. sex scandals led to derivatives including bimbette and male form—himbo. Noun
Synonym
Usage He went out with a succession of blonde bimbos. we didn’t want a blond bimbo in that role. We wanted her to be smart. Her hubby’s been cheating on her with various bimbos. Tom calls Ted’s girlfriend a bimbo.
“I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and
everything they stand for.”
“To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership.” “There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it’s unconstitutional, it’s immoral and basically illegal.” “It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It’s humiliating.” — Jessica Lange Is Jessica Lange an idiot?
Why the ad hominem attacks?
I’m not a Jessica Lange fan, but I can see a good sense in her judgement of President Bush. Well, this isn’t a political column. So I don’t want to get into political mumbo jumbo. Anyway, there must be some people who go along with her comments—like me.
mumbo jumbo Noun
Usage Financial information is just mumbo jumbo to me.
mimbo; himbo Noun
Usage Nancy, I’ll tell ya. Don’t go out with Johnny. He’s a mimbo.
bimboy Noun
Usage Mary fools around with a bimboy.
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(about Madonna:born as Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone in 1958)
What a dumbbutt bimbo! This is coming from an idiot who can’t act
and doesn’t know her ass from a hole in the ground! Go live in France
with The Bagdad Chicks and your other communist cronies, you dumb blonde!
