nincumpoop
English
Noun
nincumpoop (plural nincumpoops)
- Obsolete spelling of nincompoop
- 1706, Michael de Cervantes Saavedra [i.e., Miguel de Cervantes], “How Don Quixote Took His Leave of the Duke, and what Happen’d between Him and the Witty Wanton Altisidora, the Duchesses Damsel”, in John Stevens, transl., The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. […], volume II, 2nd revised and amended edition, London: Printed for R. Chiswell, S. and J. Sprint, R. Battersby, S. Smith, and B. Walford, M. Wotton and G. Conyers, OCLC 84821164, page 335:
- May'ſt thou paſs for a Nincumpoop all the World over, / From Paris to France, and from England to Dover.
- [1785, [Francis Grose], “Nickumpoop, or Nincumpoop”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1080177284:
- Nickumpoop, or Nincumpoop, a fooliſh fellow; alſo one who never ſaw his wife's ****.]
- 1802, Joanna Baillie, “The Election: A Comedy, in Five Acts”, in A Series of Plays: In which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. […], volume II, 2nd edition, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], OCLC 519191005, Act I, scene i, pages 4–5:
- What, do you give it up so? you poor, ſpiritleſs nincumpoops! I would roar till I burſted firſt, before I would give it up so to such a low-liv'd, beggarly rabble.
- 1835, Catherine G[eorge] Ward, chapter V, in The Fisher’s Daughter, or The Wanderings of Wolf, and the Fortunes of Alfred. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Published by William Burnett, […], OCLC 1049084451, page 82:
- No, but I take you for a man, Peter, who when good fortune throws something in his way, would indeed be a nincumpoop if ever he slighted her favours.
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