mouth breather

mouth breather

Someone who is dimwitted, foolish, or stupid; someone of low or stunted intelligence. Used as an insult. That bully is a such a mouth breather, I bet he has the IQ of a rock.
See also: breather, mouth
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

mouth-breather

n. a stupid-acting person. I always end up with a mouth-breather on a blind date.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be out of (one's) league
  • be out of somebody's league
  • accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
  • accompany on a journey
  • (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
  • a stranger to (someone or something)
  • be in bad with (someone)
  • be (not) a patch on
  • bargain
  • bargain for (someone or something) with (someone)
References in periodicals archive
Tuesdays are buy one, get one free sandwiches -- brisket, pulled pork, turkey, slider trio, the Mouth Breather, OLB cubano, turkey BLT, pulled barbecue jackfruit and banh mi -- from 11 a.m.
You're a mouth breather and your saliva, which is like glue when it dries out during the night, sticks your tongue to your hard palate.
What kind of mouth breather thought this was a good idea or funny?
We're saying it's to be expected that some mouth breather in three-quarter-length joggies and shiny trainers can be trusted to act like a normal human being.
J oy is a mouth breather and was wondering if she breathes irregularly.
Think you might be a mouth breather? A sinus-clearing product like Vicks VapoRub under your nose will unclog your schnoz before bed.
Now if one bloke can kill the most famous man in the world and get away with it (I know who did it, but can't say) then some tattooed, shaven-headed mouth breather is going to negotiate his way from the terraces to the pitch, bypassing the half-dozen bored stewards who don't even make minimum wage.
Are you a mouth breather or do you always breathe through our nose?
If you are always a mouth breather, check with your health care provider.
"We do it once a month and it fills up every month," she said, adding that some students take the class several times to get used to using the breathing regulator," You wouldn't think it would be that different, but your mask covers your nose so you have to become a mouth breather."
The first thing the famed holistic goddess asked was if I'm a nose breather or mouth breather. Nose, I told her.
The mouth-breathing test: If you can only make a snoring noise with your mouth open then you're a mouth breather. Try chin-up straps to keep your mouth closed.
If you can only snore with your mouth open then you are a 'mouth breather'.
Further, transversely depicted in posterior crossbite and narrow deep maxillary arch was also present positively in mouth breather, all this correlates with Ricketts and Harvold keystone studies in this field as referred above.
will launch the newly designed TMJ-MBV (Mouth Breather Version) Appliance[TM] at AAO-HNSF.