Timeline for Is it common to use "mule" to refer to stupidity?
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| Sep 11, 2015 at 23:42 | comment | added | Margana | +1 dumb has through misuse come to mean stupid, it originally means a person who does not speak and who is therefore considered stupid. Since dumb evokes this bit of wrong and insensitive thinking, it too is best avoided | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 20:39 | history | edited | Feralthinker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2015 at 20:28 | comment | added | J.R. | This is a nice summary. There may have been a time where mule connoted stupidity (etymonline says, meaning "obstinate, stupid, or stubborn person" is from 1470s), but that meaning seems to have waned while the notion of stubborness has held fast. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 18:25 | history | answered | Feralthinker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |