Meaning of abderitt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. an Abderite (an inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace, a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe, now divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey)
   historical, masculine
2. a simple-minded person
   colloquial, derogatory, masculine

Examples

“den classiske oldtid havde f.ex. sine abderiter, vi have vore fjeldmænd, jyder o.s.v.”

the classical antiquity had e.g. its abderites, we have our mountaineers, Jews, etc.

“Wieland’s bekjendte fortælling om de græske «molboer», abderitterne”

Wieland’s well-known tale of the Greek “molboer”, the abderites