mouth-breather

mouth-breather
 n.— «One wonders, in fact, if some nervous vice-presidents at the CBC are not looking over their shoulders at some of the mouth-breathers and wall-climbers in the new Conservative caucus who always viewed the CBC as a hive of pinkos and weirdos.» —“The sacking of a genuine star” by Allan Fotheringham Maclean’s (Can.) June 17, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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