PEA-BRAINED

PRONUNCIATION: (PEE-braynd)

MEANING: adjective: Extremely stupid.

ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to the small size of a pea. The word pea is formed from the misinterpretation of the already singular word pease. The word pease is fossilized in children’s nursery rhyme “Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold.” Another mistakenly formed singular is the word cherry from the already singular cherise. Earliest documented use: 1942.
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SEA-BRAINED - unable to think clearly because of the undulating surf and the winds, and possibly also seasickness

PEE-BRAINED - a piss-poor excuse for an intellect

PIE: A BRA IN ED - I always knew that talking horse was up to no good

PEAT-BRAINED - Just think, in another hundred million years it coulda been bituminous coal!