mouth-breather
n.— «“How can we reach out to the average viewer?” You know…the middle-class mouth-breather with the camper truck and the short attention span.» —“Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley” by Cyra McFadden New York Times Mag. Feb. 5, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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