bozo

  1. Etymology.  riginating c. 1910. Maybe from Spanish ''bozal'', a term used in slave trade and meaning "one who speaks Spanish poorly.".
  2. Etymology.  irst used in USA English as a vocative, from Spanish ''vosotros'' = "you": compare buster#Etymology.
  3. Etymology.  fter Bozo the Clown, a clown character very popular in the USA in the 1950s.
  4. Etymology.  fter Anselm of Canterbury's usage of the early continental European Germanic-origin personal name Boso.
  5. Noun.  (slang) A stupid or foolish person.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.