Crossword clues for nincompoop
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nincompoop \nin"com*poop\, n. [A corruption of non compos.] A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law]
An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best
language she can afford me.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, nicompoop. Despite similarity [noted by Johnson] to Latin legal phrase non compos mentis "insane, mentally incompetent" (c.1600), the connection is denied by etymologists because the earliest forms lack the second -n-. Weekley thinks first element may be a proper name, and cites Nicodemus, which he says was used in French for "a fool," or Nicholas. Klein says probably an invented word.
Wiktionary
n. A silly or foolish person.
WordNet
Usage examples of "nincompoop".
I might just as well been out there with that bunch of nincompoops watching guys haul what was left of Dana Brye out of that mess they used to call a castle!
A real shithole run by a nincompoop alkie, but expensive as hell, so, of course, Mumsy thought it was good, the woman was always such an arriviste.
Devereaux regarded the new DCI as a politically correct nincompoop appointed by the Arkansan President whom, although a fellow Democrat, he despised, and that was before Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky.
It was all very well for Hoskins to talk confidently about nincompoops from the Ministry.
He started using an absurd range of bright colours to please simpering nincompoops with deep wallets and with no knowledge of the subtlety of art.
Some addle-brained nincompoop just tried to beam up an operating accelerator field and I’m trying to trace the coordinates.
Some addle-brained nincompoop just tried to beam up an operating accelerator field and I'm trying to traci the coordinates.
The tight-fisted marmalade millionaires of Dundee did their best to run their great Chugwater Ranch effectively, and they did not dispatch nincompoops to do the job.
This time there are ten in the grouping, and you may bet that Choong hasn't invited nincompoops and milksops to share his dreams!
He was killed because he had for too long made G-men, all of whom then wore fedoras, look non compos mentis, like nincompoops.
The danger of contamination of wards by other-species atmospheres is always present, and such an environmental catastrophe should not be allowed to occur because some partially sighted nincompoop has connected up the wrong set of pipes.