Short for Global Village Idiot. The term sums up a business person or tourist in a global environment, who commits one cross-cultural mistake after another, assumes her own culture is vastly superior, and somehow keeps on upsetting people with her cultural insensitivity.
Примеры использования:
Dublin was a crowded place on a Friday evening. The pints of Guinness were lined up like nuns waiting for a bus, overshadowing the thumb-sized iced-tea, ordered by some English gloviot who clearly hadn't done his homework. This was an Irish worker's bar.
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