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numpty


A recent addition to navy vocab. This is a form of politically correct abuse, it means nothing, abbreviates nothing, is not jargon, it is a non-term but implies "you are a non-entity" which is as close to abuse as one can get in the p.c., good working relationship, touchy feely, modern defence service environment: Instructor to student group, "You're a pack of numpties, the lot of you!" or "you bloody numpty!"