Bozo
WordNet

noun


(1)   An informal term for a youth or man
"A nice guy"
"The guy's only doing it for some doll"
(2)   A man who is a stupid incompetent fool
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Etymology

  • Originating c. 1910. Maybe from Spanish bozal, a term used in slave trade and meaning "one who speaks Spanish poorly."
  • After Bozo the Clown, a clown character very popular in the USA in the 1950s
  • First used in USA English as a vocative, from Spanish vosotros = "you": compare Wikipedia:Buster#Etymology.
  • After Anselm of Canterbury's usage of the early continental European Germanic-origin personal name Boso.
 
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