Lamebrain, in slang

Usage examples of nimrod.

But Apolline was already accompanying Freddy upstairs, leaving Cal and Nimrod to investigate the ground floor.

Leader Alan Eastoe turned the AWACS Nimrod in a slow arc as he completed the southerly leg of his patrol at twenty-five thousand feet above the road which straggled across the Norwegian Finnmark from the Tanafjord to the small town of Karasjok.

Nimrod rearing on his hind legs, hooves pawing the air, threatening a Khamba who had drawn a long knife.

As for the blood-men, they also were under command and the names of their captains were, Captain Cain, Captain Nimrod, Captain Ishmael, Captain Esau, Captain Saul, Captain Absalom, Captain Judas, and Captain Pope.

Fiddleback and could, were I to let you live, link up with Baron Someday, Midas Longclaws or even Nimrod Nyet and cause me all manner of difficulty.

Now, Nimrod being as dead as the mighty hunter whose name Mrs. Snagsby has appropriated, and the lady being unproducible, she directs her mental eye, for the present, with redoubled vigilance to the boy.

Some of those who have borne great names as Nimrods in our hunting annals would as life have led a forlornhope as put a horse at a flight of hurdles.

In the life and habits of parsons and ladies there is much that is antagonistic to hunting, and they who suppress this antagonism do so because they are Nimrods at heart.

It will, of course, be understood that, as to both these samples of female Nimrods, I speak of ladies who really ride, not of those who grace the coverts with, and disappear under the auspices of, their papas or their grooms when the work begins.

There have remained some few great Nimrods who have chosen to be magnanimous and to pay for everything, despising the contributions of their followers.

And then again, instead of an agent, there might well be an en-Assary from Nimrod.

Pace was convinced that curriculums were being shaped, university personnel hired and fired, degree and scholarship policies, all were expedited on the Nimrod organization~s instructions.

Their route led them through a murky assault course, which Nimrod, being much the smaller, negotiated with more ease than Cal.

After enumerating these, Scripture returns to the first of the sons, and says, "Cush begat Nimrod.

With its crew of twelve, improved power plants, performance, and surveillance aids, the Nimrod could either skim the waves at low level, slow and steady, listening on electronic ears to the sounds of underwater movement, or cruise at altitude, hour after hour, two engines shut down for fuel economy, observ­.