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Bimbo, that’s what I’ll use it on someone who has humongous ‘assets’ (ahem) and with no brain. Not in a thousand light years would I imagine to be labeled as one. Yea yea, I know, what goes around comes around. Karma it is. I shouldn’t have called anyone with that, perhaps not even mention it silently in my heart.

Anyway, I went almost full fladge looking up the meaning and origin of BIMBO and there you go.

Answer.com defines it as
bim·bo (bĭm‘bō)
n., pl. -bos.

1. Slang. A woman regarded as vacuous or as having an exaggerated interest in her sexual appeal.
2. Slang. A vacuous person: “a male bimbo … who even has to be tutored … in the clichés that comprise the basic interview” (George F. Will).

[Perhaps from Italian bimbo, baby.]

Wordnet says
The noun bimbo has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men

Now, Wikipedia has the most interesting way of explaining bimbo and its origin.

A bimbo is a term that emerged in the English language in the late 20th century as a popular term for a stupid and pliable woman. As it derives from Italian language words of male gender, it first emerged into English (probably through the United Kingdom Italianate underworld slang known as Polari) referring to stupid men; though it now is understood to connote a woman unless one says "male bimbo" (sometimes modified to "himbo" or "mimbo"). Some still prefer the explicitly female variant bimbette, which has also entered The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Others distinguish between the words to use "bimbette" to mean a woman either younger or stupider than a "bimbo". The word "bimbo" is sometimes interpreted as the backronym "body impressive, brain optional".

The archetype of a bimbo with sex appeal is much used as a stock character in comedies with sexual humor, an example being Christina Applegate’s character Kelly Bundy in Married… with Children. Alicia Silverstone’s character Cher Horowitz in Clueless is more accurately described as a Valley girl, a similar archetype with more elements of laughably unusual priorities and behaviors than are strictly derived from the "bimbo" themes of comical stupidity and sex appeal. An older comedy archetype of perhaps more direct resemblance is the dumb blonde, for example the giggling naive characters often portrayed by sultry actresses such as Marilyn Monroe.

The sacrifice of a woman’s intelligence in the furtherance of her own or another’s lust is an element of some erotica, especially that of the mind control fetish genre. Stories tell of an intelligent woman becoming a bimbo or bimbette by various realistic or unrealistic means, a process known by the coinages "bimbification" or "bimboization". The former website bimboslutz.com was dedicated to stories of this type.

Of course there is far more amusement in an intelligent woman’s willing behavior as if she were stupid, whether in the course of sexual roleplay or in mainstream comedy, than in the behavior of a woman who is really intellectually limited. Humor deriving from blonde women’s (or male jocks’) stupidity has been accused of sexism.

Usage in fictional media

The term "bimbette" is used in the Beauty and the Beast animated film to describe three women that have "the hots" for local hunter and bodybuilder Gaston. They appear to be identical triplets (red, yellow and green sexy French dresses, blonde hair, etc.) and have the same voice actress (Kath Soucie) providing all three girls’ voices.

An episode of the sitcom Seinfeld featured a discussion of male bimbos, which Jerry dubbed a "Mimbo." This term has since become a fairly mainstream way to describe men with bimbo-like qualities. Another variant, himbo, was formed on analogy with bimbo but without the implication of lacking intelligence and sense.

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Translations for: Bimbo

Nederlands (Dutch)
kerel, dom blondje

Français (French)
minette, bécasse, starlette

Deutsch (German)
n. - junges Mädchen mit Nichts im Kopf, Niete

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. χαζογκόμενα

Italiano (Italian)
(amer.) stupida e ignorante

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pessoa (f) agradável mas estúpida

Русский (Russian)
красивая но тупая, телка

Español (Spanish)
n. - mujer joven, guapa y poco inteligente

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kille, dumsnut, tönt, brutta, fnask

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 女人

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 女人

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - やつ, 女

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) فتاة جميله, غبيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)‬
n. - ‮אישה, פרוצה, ברנש‬

Well, the list can go on and on… but I guess that’s enough for me, at least, to gain better insight of THE word.

Gosh, talking about first impression. I have been regarded countlessly as proud, snobbish, hard to approach so on and so forth but nothing quite like BIMBO. I looked into the mirror to see if I carry any of the characteristics a bimbo carries. None, I see none. Ok, so what if I indeed have grown into my own skin, I’d like to think; I started to notice a few things like colours that match my skin, shoes which lengthen my legs, hair style which frames my face nicely, clothes that shows my barely-there-curves, okay, maybe not a few things, there are whole lot of other things I couldn’t have care less when I was in secondary school, that doesn’t quite justify being called a bimbo. Instead, if you look at it from the nature point of view, I’d say nature has taken its cause. Think metamorphosis, think how caterpillar turning into a butterfly. We, mere human too, are going through that phase of life. Speaking of gift of gab… sometimes, I think I’ve been gifted. Hahahahahahaaha… from bimbo to butterfly… how did I do that? Hahahaha…

Look, I am not being defensive here. After all, like I said, it’s all first impression! I, for some reason, hehe.. had a rather dodgy impression of Becky too. Ermm, I thought she’s quite bi@tchy (Opps, sorry, I didn’t mean to swear ) and look how it all turns out now. I am no longer the BIMBO she one thought I was and she isn’t a bi@tchy girl too. First impression can be changed even some people still think first impression is forever. Well, I said it can be changed but not always. Okay, a little confession time, I still think Mama Monster is a Mama Monster! My first impression basically stays the same even after months of knowing that person. So you see, you can’t really change a mouse to horseman (inspired by Cinderalla), a mouse will be a mouse. What an odd comparison that was I do have some really wacky brain cells.. haha…

Hmm, now what got me really thinking is… do I have a hidden potential to become a BIMBO, or rather, am I on the verge of turning into one?! *alarmed* No no, it’s just metamophosis… I’m just scaring myself… but then again, wasn’t Marilyn Monroe a bimbo? Hmmm, and the world adores her. It isn’t that bad to be one, really

Question, what would u call someone with brain and yet looks like a bimbo at the same time? Braino? Bimbraino? Ah ha, Bimbraino it is! Quick, I need to register and ‘copy write’ my greatest invention *wink* Now now, anyone else wanna be bimbraino??

Put that aside, EJen said her first impression of me, nothing more, nothing less, it’s SHOPAHOLIC! Right on, EJen!

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