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单词 nincompoop
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nincompoopn.

Brit. /ˈnɪŋkəmpuːp/, U.S. /ˈnɪnkəmˌpup/, /ˈnɪŋkəmˌpup/
Forms:

α. 1600s–1700s nickumpoop, 1600s–1700s nicompoop.

β. 1600s ninkompoop, 1600s– nincompoop, 1700s– nincumpoop (now rare and English regional), 1800s– ninkcoompoop (English regional), 1800s– ninkumpoop (English regional); also Scottish 1800s ninycompook (Ayrshire).

Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; the second element may perhaps be poop v.2 (compare earlier noddypoop n.). The first element in α. forms may show a form derived from a name; compare French nicodème simple or naive person (see Nicodemite n.). With the first element in β. forms compare ninny n.1Various other etymologies have been suggested. Johnson's suggestion of non compos n. does not agree with the earliest forms.
slang and regional.
A simpleton, a foolish person.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun]
dizzyc825
cang?c1225
foolc1225
apec1330
mopc1330
saddle-goosec1346
mis-feelinga1382
foltc1390
mopec1390
fona1400
buffardc1430
fopc1440
joppec1440
fonda1450
fondlinga1450
insipienta1513
plume of feathers1530
bobolynec1540
dizzard1546
Little Witham?1548
nodc1563
dawkin1565
cocknel1566
nigion1570
niddicock1577
nodcock1577
cuckoo1581
Jack with the feather1581
niddipol1582
noddyship?1589
stirkc1590
fonkin1591
Gibraltar1593
fopper1598
noddypeak1598
coxcombry1600
simple1600
gowka1605
nup1607
fooliaminy1608
silly ass1608
dosser-head1612
dor1616
glow-worm1624
liripipea1625
doodle1629
sop1637
spalt1639
fool's head1650
buffle1655
Jack Adams1656
bufflehead1659
nincompoopc1668
bavian1678
nokes1679
foolanea1681
cod1699
hulver-head1699
nigmenog1699
single ten1699
mud1703
dowf1722
foolatum1740
silly billy1749
tommy noddy1774
arsec1785
nincom1800
silly1807
slob1810
omadhaun1818
potwalloper1820
mosy1824
amadan1825
gump1825
gype1825
oonchook1825
prawn1845
suck-egg1851
goosey1852
nowmun1854
pelican1856
poppy-show1860
buggerlugs1861
damfool1881
mudhead1882
yob1886
peanut head1891
haggis bag1892
poop1893
gazob1906
mush1906
wump1908
zob1911
gorm1912
goof1916
goofus1916
gubbins1916
dumb cluck1922
twat1922
B.F.1925
goofer1925
bird brain1926
berk1929
Berkeley1929
Berkeley Hunt1929
ding1929
loogan1929
stupido1929
poop-stick1930
nelly1931
droop1932
diddy1933
slappy1937
goof ball1938
get1940
poon1940
tonk1941
clot1942
yuck1943
possum1945
gobdaw1947
momo1953
nig-nog1953
plonker1955
weenie1956
nong-nong1959
Berkshire Hunt1960
balloon1965
doofus1965
dork1965
nana1965
shit-for-brains1966
schmoll1967
tosspot1967
lunchbox1969
doof1971
tonto1973
dorkus1979
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
wally1980
wally brain1981
der-brain1983
langer1983
numpty1985
sotong1988
fanny1995
fannybaws2000
α.
c1668 (title) The ship of fools fully fraught and richly laden with asses, fools, jack-daws, ninnihammers, coxcombs, slender-wits, shallowbrains, paper-skuls, simpletons, nickumpoops, wiseakers, dunces, and blockheads.
1673 T. Shadwell Epsom-Wells II. i. 28 Yes, you Nicompoop, you are a pretty Fellow to please a Woman indeed.
1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iv. 39 Ay, for me Nickumpoop.
1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Epidicus iv. viii, in tr. Plautus Comedies 109 Thou..hast led me by the Nose, as if I had been the meerest Nicompoop in the World.
1735 J. Miller Man of Taste v. 79 Yes, and if you had but taken as much trouble to make all fast, you would not have been made such a Nicompoop of as you are.
1739 H. Baker & J. Miller Learned Ladies II. ix. 65 Can you, without shame..invest a Nicompoop with all your Wealth for six Words of Latin which he bellows out to 'em?
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. vii. 48 In doing it, or after he had done, had he looked like a fool—like a ninny—like a nicompoop.
β. 1678 Poor Robin's True Char. Scold 6 Ninkompoop, or pitiful lowsy Tom Farthing.1697 T. D'Urfey Cinthia & Endimion iii. i. 15 Daphne uses him like a meer Nincompoop, she makes him carry her Slippers, or mend her Stockings.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Nincumpoop or Nickumpoop, a meer Blockhead, Sot or Dolt.1713 J. Addison in Guardian 16 July 1/1 An old Ninnyhammer, a Dotard, a Nincompoop.1779 H. Cowley Who's the Dupe? ii. 18 Oh, that ever I should have been such a Nincompoop!1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 93 Fashion, though a goddess, is a fool, and all her worshippers..are nincompoops.1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xii, in Writings I. 117 To make him feel a coward, a nobody, a nincompoop.1890 J. Fothergill March in Ranks II. x. 168 I know how to behave without making too great a nincompoop of myself.1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William i. 28 Is my digestion to be ruined simply because this young nincompoop chooses to pay his social calls at seven o'clock at night?1952 Amer. Hist. Rev. 57 865 He relied on one cryptic passage in one letter to brand the Secretary of State as a blundering nincompoop.2001 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Electronic ed.) 13 July Mr Cuffe seems to lazily adopt the ignorant prejudices of a foolish nincompoop.

Derivatives

nincompoophood n. Obsolete the state or fact of being a nincompoop.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun]
hardnessOE
stuntnessc1000
sotshipc1050
witlessnessa1100
sotheada1200
dullness1398
bluntness1483
slowness1495
grossnessa1530
stupidity?1541
assishness?1548
dastardness1552
lourderie1555
dastardliness1556
blockishness1561
doltishness1569
sottage1569
sheepishness1574
doltry1581
sottishness1589
doltage1593
dorbellism1593
grout-headry1600
opacity1611
duncery1615
dunstery1615
stupidness1619
hebetude1621
insulsity1623
unintelligence1634
obtuseness1648
jobbernowlism1652
dullery1653
non-intelligence1653
blockheadishness1656
crassness1664
blockheadedness1716
stolidness1727
blockheadism1753
numbskullity1779
nincompoophood1791
duncishness1805
numbskullism1806
foziness1821
noodledum1821
obtusity1823
soft-headedness1823
noodledom1827
duncehood1829
dunderheadedness1830
sumphishness1830
asininity1831
dunderheadism1836
stockishness1837
dullardness1840
fat-headedness1840
stupor1845
duncedom1847
misintelligence1848
nincompoopery1850
wooden-headedness1850
dumminess1852
jolterheadedness1852
ninnyship1852
donkeyism1855
dumbness1860
beef-wittedness1863
crassitude1865
donkeyhood1869
slow-wittedness1869
chuckle-headedness1880
leatherheadedness1880
pinheadedness1884
numbskulledness1885
donkeydom1889
thickheadedness1889
density1894
moronism1922
nitwittedness1931
nitwittery1931
noodleness1931
dopiness1942
squirrel-headedness1955
nincompoopism1957
dim-wittedness1960
clottishness1961
1791 H. Walpole Let. to Miss Berry 26 May The nincompoophood of her Prince.
ˈnincompoopism n. = nincompoopery n.
ΚΠ
1957 Jrnl. Eng. Lit. Hist. 24 15 Walter Shandy had selected ‘Trismegistus’ as a name of legendary wisdom and magical potency; ‘Tristram,’ on the other hand, he regarded as the ultimate in nincompoopism.
2001 Eastern Econ. Jrnl. (Nexis) 27 231 That might be true of some bad libertarian economists, and probably does correlate with nincompoopism, maybe for the reasons Galbraith suggests.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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