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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions nincompoop noun  A silly or foolish person. 1905: Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=507211157&tag=Orczy,+Baroness:+The+Scarlet+Pimpernel,+1905&query=+nincompoop&id=OrcPimp :No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless , the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies... 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.      Full Definition of nincompoop  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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