N.F.N.

adj

British

unintelligent and/or unsophisticated. An item of medical slang (reported in the Sunday Times 'Style' magazine, 6 October 1996) which can facetiously be written on case notes in front of patients without their understanding. It is an abbreviation of 'normal for Nor-wich/Norfolk', based on the supposition that inhabitants are characteristically slow-witted and provincial.