Definitions for nincompoops

nincompoops nin·com·poop

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

Nincompoops is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in nincompoops (cimnnooopps).

Definitions for nincompoops

noun

  1. a fool or simpleton.

Origin of nincompoops

First recorded in 1670-80; origin uncertain

Examples for nincompoops

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Word Value for nincompoops
Scrable

18

Words with friends

24

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