sad-sack
sad sack
noun Slang.
a pathetically inept person, especially a soldier, who continually blunders in spite of good intentions.
Origin:
after the cartoon character created in 1942 by U.S. cartoonist George Baker (1915–75)
after the cartoon character created in 1942 by U.S. cartoonist George Baker (1915–75)
Related forms
sad-sack, adjective
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| sad sack | |
| —n | |
| slang (US) an inept person who makes mistakes despite good intentions | |
| [C20: from a cartoon character created by G. Baker, US cartoonist] | |
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Sad-sack
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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