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thicko

British  
/ ˈθɪkəʊ /

noun

  1. Also: thickie.   thickyslang a slow-witted unintelligent person

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They were perennially nominated and perennially knocked back, until Nile Rodgers was eventually given a consolation prize: an award for musical excellence that came complete with an online citation that posited him as an artist who made “danceable rock”, presumably lest the kind of hooting thicko that turned up at the 1979 Disco Demolition riot get upset.

From The Guardian

In the wrong hands the character would be little more than a two-dimensional cartoon thicko - a sort of Beavis and Butthead rolled into one bigoted, bullying buffoon - but Sam Rockwell manages to mine Dixon's shallows and successfully find his humanity and humility.

From BBC

“That’s probably an incredibly terrible term, thicko. But, you know, someone who is wonderfully well-meaning, but isn’t… I’ve always been the kind of person who’s well-meaning but slightly vacant at times.”

From The Guardian

"Bojo's a 'thicko'," says the Sun, mocking up a picture of the "humiliated" mayor in a dunce's hat "Dimbojo," is the headline in the , which gives Mr Johnson an even bigger hat , as it tells the mayor to "go to the back of the class"

From BBC

The thicko son develops a genius IQ and the daughter who feels high school is full of backstabbers and secrets becomes telepathic.

From The Guardian