Definitions for nincompoop

nincompoop nin·com·poop

Spelling: [nin-kuh m-poop, ning-]
IPA: /ˈnɪn kəmˌpup, ˈnɪŋ-/

Nincompoop is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in nincompoop (cimnnooopp).

Definitions for nincompoop

noun

  1. a fool or simpleton.

Origin of nincompoop

First recorded in 1670-80; origin uncertain

Examples for nincompoop

When ye hear of a man a woman hez made, ye hears of a nincompoop.

I have made a scurvy bargain: art a cozening knave, I doubt, as well as a nincompoop.'

That a man with a weak, receding chin is always a nincompoop.

That young Welsh nincompoop imp has his eyes everywhere; his ears are always open.

Wouldn't some nincompoop like Forsyth be perhaps, after all, his best choice?

I don't pay money for a nincompoop to outrage my feelings of respect and loyalty, when he's in my pay, d' ye hear?

At moments he showed extraordinary talent as an engineer; at others he behaved like a nincompoop.

And I won't have it spoiled, by every nincompoop poking his nose into it.

And to think of her as the wife of that blithering little ass—that nincompoop of a Karl Brabetz!

The nincompoop can always be counted on to deify the commonplace.

Word Value for nincompoop
Scrable

18

Words with friends

24

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