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nincumpoop

nincumpoop 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 nincumpoop

pluralnincumpoops

Questions about nincumpoop

What is nincumpoop the obsolete spelling of?
Nincumpoop is the obsolete spelling of nincompoop.

Words near nincumpoop in the dictionary

  1. nincompoopish
  2. nincompoopism
  3. nincompoops
  4. nincoms
  5. nincum
  6. nincumpoop
  7. nincumpoops
  8. nincums
  9. Nind
  10. Ninda
  11. nindan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nincumpoop (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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