Prior to the Industrial revolution, before swarms of people migrated from Small towns, villages, and farming hamlets to large industrial cities and Metropolises, the populations people were around all the time (their community) were so small, that if one person within that community was feeble of mind, they were designated the village idiot.

Think Adrien Brody's character in M. Night Shyamalan's "the Village" (2004)

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"Idiot" was a category in the U.S. Census back during the 19th Century which refered to mental retardation.
In the episode of Ren and Stimpy "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" (Air date: November 11th, 1994) Stimpleton comes across the Man Eating Village Idiot, owner of the (see title). The Village Idiot agrees to the trade, but threatens that unless Stimpleton can prove his stupidity in a "battle of witlessness" he will eat Stimpleton.
To make a long and greusome story short, Stimpleton wins the contest, leaving the Man Eating Village Idiot dead from his own stupidity.
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1) An idiot of epic proportions

2) One so devoid of any social or reasoning abilities that he or she is constantly making you wish you were dead for being in the same room as him or her.

3) Almost the same as being functionally retarded, but not quite there.
1, 2, 3) Kenneth is a mongrel idiot whose complete lack of any EQ or social ability makes his usefullness equivalent to that of a crudely fashioned Christmas gift made by a kindergardener.
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I person who stands in line at Mcdonalds and doesn't know what to order or anything about the menu
Idiot: Does cheese come on that cheeseburger???
Somebody in line: Man, what a Mc idiot
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A person who is not a full blown idiot, but it is on the border of being one.
You are almost an idiot, a borderline idiot.
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The village idiot from Texas named George W. Bush.
George W. Bitch makes Forset Gump look like a Ph.D recipient from Harvard U
George W is the American idiot of American idiots and the Village Idiot of Village Idiots.
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Paul, a hillbilly, is the village idiot. His IQ must be 88, at most.
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