nincompoop🔊

(derogatory) A foolish or silly person.

📑 Synonyms: dunderhead fool imbecile nitwit gaby hammerhead putz

💬 Quotations

[S]hall I be call'd as many blockheads, numsculs, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninnyhammers, goosecaps, joltheads, nicompoops, and sh--t-a-beds—and other unsavory appellations, […]

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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, both in France and in England.

Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

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