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)

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nincompoops
plural of nincompoop
nincompoop

    Hyphenation

    nin·com·poop

    Turkish pronunciation

    nîngkımpup

    Pronunciation

    /ˈnəɴɢkəmˌpo͞op/ /ˈnɪŋkəmˌpuːp/

    Etymology

    () 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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