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By Joy Schreiber

[HUY-are AH-ah-suh] n. / 1

complete idiot

DT: cucumber lord

It is thought to be an old phrase for mocking peasants who made a bulk of money selling their annual cucumber harvest and spent it all in night clubs as if they were rich man.

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