Meanings
- not comparableLacking brains or intelligence; empty-headed; vacuous.
It was no good telling Kirton that he was an hiatused fool.
1899 June 24, The Evening News, Sydney, page 3, column 42 more examples
Some years before, the Colonel commanding had looked into the fourteen fearless eyes of seven plump and juicy subalterns who had all applied to enter the Staff Corps, and had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 135With a charitable consideration for Mr. Miller's "hiatused" intellect, and for his stupendous ignorance, I hinted, some time ago, that he deserved contempt.
1897 May 29, The Catholic Journal, New York, page 169
Origin
Pseudo-participial formed from hiatus + -ed.
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