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English
Etymology
From dumb + -dom.
Noun
dumbdom (uncountable)
- (informal, possibly regarded as nonstandard) The quality of being dumb or stupid; stupidity.
1998, Steven Tolliday, The Rise and Fall of Mass Production, volume 2, page 64:He was a doper, the pied piper of dumbdom, always banged to the gills on some queer mix of speed, mescaline, hash or cocaine.
2011, Richard Lauer, Dues and Don'ts, page 17:We could finally say with conviction that dumbdom had a king and court complete with jokers, jesters, and dirty, old men in silk pajamas who put their own baited spin on those tumultuous waters in Hell Gate that to this day still swirl as Charybdis between Manhattan and Queens.
2011, Douglas Dunn/Cujo, The Cujo Cat Chronicles, page 28:This to no avail, given that Ivan has been reduced to a quivering puddle of orange dumbdom.
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