stupify

v 1: make dull or stupid; to muddle with drunkenness or

infatuation [syn: {besot}, {stupefy}]

2: be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I

don't know the answer!" [syn: {perplex}, {get}, {puzzle},

{mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {bewilder}, {flummox}, {stupefy},

{nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}, {trounce}]

3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"

[syn: {stun}, {stupefy}]

Stupids

Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who employ them.

Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though

usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers.

There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally

published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's

"Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans

into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of

"Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary

geniuses.

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