Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hunter.
- noun Informal A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid.
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- noun informal, pejorative A
silly orfoolish person; Anidiot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Old Testament) a famous hunter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This nimrod is advocating government, by the libs for money and special interest.
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One thing I do know — the worst thing that can happen to a beginning nimrod is to take a fine trophy the first time out.
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One thing I do know — the worst thing that can happen to a beginning nimrod is to take a fine trophy the first time out.
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One thing I do know — the worst thing that can happen to a beginning nimrod is to take a fine trophy the first time out.
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The saddest part is that any information coming from anywhere will most likely be clamped down on and shut off from the regular folks, leaving us with that Kristin nimrod and Ausiello and his frak attacks …
The Tail Section » Lost Producers React to Spoiler-Gate ‘07 2007
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DNFP, read the comment again nimrod, jwest wrote “mogoloid” not MONGOLOID”.
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DNFP, read the comment again nimrod, jwest wrote “mogoloid” not MONGOLOID”.
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I really don’t know much about the funding of Thinkprogress other than the distict lack of advertising but if this Judd nimrod is getting paid theres 2 people need firing.
Think Progress » McClellan: I Can’t Comment Because Harriet Miers Told Me Not To 2005
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Or does "nimrod" mean something else to you, much as facts regarding 9/11 do?
I'm assailed in the local paper for failing to take the 9/11 truthers seriously. Ann Althouse 2008
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A friend loaned his shotgun to Vern, while someone the Press termed a "nimrod" volunteered to fly with him and crawled into the front seat.
gabi commented on the word nimrod
A word about Nimrod. Very interesting. Being Hungarian born , I know, that the noun is a personal noun, and not even any kind, but belongs to group oƒ one of our early heroes,as early, as the year 900. Two questions, how did it happened that our Hungarian national figure serves as an american entertaining figure, the second is, how is it that it is not found in the etymological section?Hm....Gabi
September 7, 2009
qms commented on the word nimrod
A larcenous and a greedy habit,
To covet honor and falsely grab it.
So the name of Nimrod
Is filched by a dim clod,
Whose goal is only: "Kill the wabbit!"
I am surprised by the prevalence of the “foolish person, idiot” connotation of this word. I knew it only as a metonym for “hunter.” The legendary Nimrod seems to have been incarnated several times as hunter, rebel, tyrant, and giant, but he was nobody’s fool. If it is true that its use to mean foolish person has become commonplace as a result of its application to Elmer Fudd in Looney Tunes cartoons my guess is that “poor little Nimrod” was misinterpreted by naïve listeners (that is, children) to have some affinity with words such as “dimwit,” “numskull” or “dickwad.” It sounds like it should be a scornful epithet.
March 29, 2014