Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fool; a simpleton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A simpleton; a fool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
simpleton ; afool .
Etymologies
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Of doubtful origin.
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Examples
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O that I were so happy as to light on a nupson now of this justice's novice!
Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605
qms commented on the word nupson
Whence comes this alarming eruption
Of ravening public corruption?
Can voters in masses
Be consummate asses
And Everyman be a blunt nupson?
December 16, 2017