Benny, Bennie

Benny, Bennie
n
British
a foolish, clumsy person, misfit. The name of a slow-witted male character (played by Paul Henry) in the long-run-ning TV soap opera Crossroads was adopted as a nickname for unfortunate males and lasted into the late 1990s. The word became notorious when it was applied by British servicemen to inhab-itants of the Falkland Islands in 1983.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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