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nicompoop

nicompoop 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 nicompoop

pluralnicompoops

Questions about nicompoop

What is nicompoop the obsolete spelling of?
Nicompoop is the obsolete spelling of nincompoop.

Words near nicompoop in the dictionary

  1. Nicomedian
  2. Nicomedians
  3. nicomiid
  4. nicomiids
  5. nicomorphine
  6. nicompoop
  7. nicompoops
  8. Nicopolis
  9. Nicopolitan
  10. Nicopolitans
  11. nicopyrite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nicompoop (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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