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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cretin</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="creeping-featuritis.html" title="creeping featuritis"/><link rel="next" href="cretinous.html" title="cretinous"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cretin</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="creeping-featuritis.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cretinous.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cretin"/><dt xmlns="" id="cretin"><b>cretin</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kret´in/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kree´tn/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Congenital <a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a>; an obnoxious person;
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someone who can't do anything right. It has been observed that many
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American hackers tend to favor the British pronunciation <span class="pronunciation">/kret´in/</span> over standard American
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<span class="pronunciation">/kree´tn/</span>; it is thought
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this may be due to the insidious phonetic influence of Monty Python's
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Flying Circus.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="creeping-featuritis.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cretinous.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">creeping featuritis </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> cretinous</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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