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nickumpoop

nickumpoop is the obsolete spelling of nincompoop.

Meaning of nincompoop

Noun

nincompoop (plural nincompoops)

  1. (derogatory) A foolish or silly person.
    • 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. Declaring their several Natures, Manners, and Constitutions; the occasion why this Ship was...[1662?], The Ship of Fools […], London: […] J[ohn] W[inter] for J[ohn] Clark, […], →OCLC, title page

Forms of nickumpoop

pluralnickumpoops

Questions about nickumpoop

What is nickumpoop the obsolete spelling of?
Nickumpoop is the obsolete spelling of nincompoop.

Words near nickumpoop in the dictionary

  1. nicks up
  2. Nickson
  3. nickstick
  4. nicksticks
  5. nickum
  6. nickumpoop
  7. nickumpoops
  8. nickums
  9. Nicky
  10. nicky nacky noo
  11. nicky nacky noos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nickumpoop (page history and authors); nincompoop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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