nincompoop

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A silly or foolish person

No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies.

{n} a blockhead, simpleton, fool
a stupid foolish person
A fool; a silly or stupid person
a stupid person (ninny + nicompoop (1600-1700))
{i} idiot; simpleton (Slang)

Связанные Термины

nincompoops
plural of nincompoop
nincompoop

    Расстановка переносов

    nin·com·poop

    Турецкое произношение

    nîngkımpup

    Синонимы

    dunderhead, fop, fool, imbecile

    Произношение

    /ˈnəɴɢkəmˌpo͞op/ /ˈnɪŋkəmˌpuːp/

    Этимология

    () Earlier (1676) nicompoop, possibly from Latin non compos mentis (“not of sound mind”), although the lack of the second n in the early form and the original meaning of “fop” cast doubt on this origin.
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