bimbo

English - Turkish

Definition of bimbo in English Turkish dictionary

(isim) sürtük

adam

(Argo) Fiziki olarak cazibeli fakat saf, aptal kadın. (Erkek için bkz. Mimbo)

{i} sürtük

Barbara beyinsiz bir sürtük. - Barbara is a brainless bimbo.

English - English

Definition of bimbo in English English dictionary

A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence

A stupid or a foolish person

Bimbo is a term that emerged in popular English language usage in the late 20th Century to describe an often attractive, yet stupid, pliable woman. This term began as early as 1919. The 1929 silent film, Desert Nights, describes a cheap female crook as a bimbo. This word derives from the Italian bimbo, a word of masculine gender that means (male) baby or very young (male) child (its feminine equivalent is bimba). The 50's song "Bimbo", about a toddler, was one of the early hits for the popular American singer Jim Reeves. Its first usage in English was for stupid men; it now is understood to mean a woman unless modified as male bimbo, himbo, or mimbo. Some still prefer the explicitly female variant bimbette, which has also entered The American Heritage Dictionary. Others use bimbette for a younger bimbo

disapproval If someone calls a young woman a bimbo, they think that although she is pretty she is rather stupid. bimbos an insulting word for an attractive but unintelligent young woman

a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men

{i} beautiful but unintelligent and often promiscuous woman (Derogatory Slang)

Related Terms

bimbos

plural of bimbo

Hyphenation

bim·bo

Turkish pronunciation

bîmbō

Synonyms

airhead, dumb blond, floozie

Pronunciation

/ˈbəmbō/ /ˈbɪmboʊ/

Etymology

() From Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in Italian American theater, attested 1919, as “stupid, inconsequential man”, by 1920 developed sense of “floozie, attractive and stupid woman”.“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 Popularized in 1920s by Jack Conway of entertainment magazine Variety, who also popularized baloney (“nonsense”) and palooka (“large stupid man”). Revived in popularity in 1980s US political sex scandals.