dingleberry

dingleberry
n
1.
a piece of dung or excrement clinging to hair or wool around the anus. This orig-inally rural notion (applied to sheep and, by extension, to humans) has curiously given rise to a very large number of col-ourful terms throughout the English-speaking world. Others are dangleber-ries, dillberries, clinkers, winnets and wittens, bum tags, chuff-nuts, etc.
2.
a crazy or eccentric person, a fool. Most commonly heard among American high-school and college students; it is inspired by the previous sense (although users may be unaware of the fact).

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • dingleberry — din·gle·ber·ry …   English syllables

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