idiot

[Bailey]

id·i·ot(d-t)
n.
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.



[Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote, from Latin idita, from Greek idits, private person, layman, from idios, own, private; see s(w)e- in Indo-European

roots.]

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agnostic or idiotes
mark Sometimes-I-say-yeah,-and-other-times-I-just-don't-know Baily

[Stargzer]

I always think of the song "The Idiot" from the album Northwest Passage by the late Stan Rogers:

So I bid farewell to the Eastern town
I never more will see
But work I must so I eat this dust
And breathe refinery
Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams
And I don't like cowboy clothes
But I like being free and that makes me
An idiot, I suppose.

Stan sang bartone; Stargzer sings bare-of-tone.