ignoramo
English edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of ignoramus + -o. Possibly modelled on Spanish and Italian verb forms ending in -o.[1]
Noun edit
ignoramo (plural ignoramos or ignoramoes)
- (rare, colloquial) A foolish and ignorant person; an ignoramus.
- 2001, Jonathan Gash [pseudonym; John Grant], Every Last Cent, Bath, Somerset: Chivers Press, →ISBN, page 236:
- 'Did you see him when I asked him his opinion of the new champers?' Biddy tittered. 'He went red as fire! What an ignoramo!'
References edit
- ^ “ignoramo, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
