nimrod
see also: Nimrod
Noun
Nimrod
Proper noun
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see also: Nimrod
Noun
nimrod (plural nimrods)
- (chiefly, US, informal, pejorative) A foolish person; an idiot.
- Don't stick your fingers in the fan, you nimrod!
- (pejorative term meaning idiot): doofus, fathead, lamebrain, numbskull
- See also Thesaurus:idiot
Nimrod
Proper noun
- (biblical) A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.
- 2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page ↗,
- The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia.
- 2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page ↗,
- A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.
- A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.
nimrod (plural nimrods)
- Any great hunter.
- 1966, Brian W. Downs, Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 (page 116)
- Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.
- 1966, Brian W. Downs, Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 (page 116)
- Alternative letter-case form of nimrod (“fool; idiot”)
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