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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Slang A fellow; a guy.
  2. n. Slang A dunce; a fool.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A stupid or foolish person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
  2. n. an informal term for a youth or man

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown.

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  • reesetee WeirdNet, what about a woman who is a stupid incompetent fool? Boza, perhaps? May 2, 2008

  • vanishedone From a page on the Latin fourth declension: 'When Latin borrows nouns, say from Greek, or perhaps through a time warp from English, these nouns may have somewhat creative declensions. Humez and Humez give the following: bozo, bozus. nm., clown.' May 2, 2008

‘bozo’ has been looked up 1178 times, loved by 1 person, added to 15 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.