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nin·com·poop 
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| a fool or simpleton. |
[Origin: 1670–80; orig. uncert.]
] —Related forms
nin·com·poop·er·y, noun
nin·com·poop·ish, adjective
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Nincompoop
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| nin·com·poop
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n. A silly, foolish, or stupid person. [Origin unknown .] nin'com·poop'er·y n. |
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nincompoop
1676, nicompoop. Despite similarity [noted by Johnson] to L. legal phrase non compos mentis "insane, mentally incompetent" (1607), the connection is denied by etymologists because the earliest forms lack the second -n-. Weekley thinks first element may be a proper name, and cites Nicodemus, which he says was used in Fr. for "a fool," or Nicholas.
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| nincompoop | |
noun | |
| a stupid foolish person |
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Nincompoop
Nin"com*poop\, n. [A corruption of non compos.] A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law] An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. --Addison.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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