Nincompoop
Nincompoop.. such a funny sounding word.
Also.. I TOLD you I was a nincompoop in the video… the term Nicodemite is from the 16th century and refers to a person resembling Nicodemus.. who obviously lived many years before.
Nincompoop.. such a funny sounding word.
Also.. I TOLD you I was a nincompoop in the video… the term Nicodemite is from the 16th century and refers to a person resembling Nicodemus.. who obviously lived many years before.
A Spoony……
Whoa, extreme kitchen echo
379 Before this comment this post is 380, huh reminds me of my oil field drilling days , a 379 was a hugh caterpillar engine used to run drilling rigs we worked on,oh well off topic, word topic, Nostradamus, word requests : parthenon, ruins,………….. also word phrase “Cat a Pillar of Strength” and the word phrase ” “I am become death, destroyer of worlds,” and the phrase “artifical sweetner as it relates too cat a Pillar of strength” and the phrase “future of mandkind as it relates to parthenon, ruins” and the phrase ” The pill as it relates to future of mandkind ” the phrase genocide as it relates to universialsuicidal” the phrase “universialsuicide relates to “No home for the Holy” and the word phrase “None shall be spared, not even the metal gods of the universe” and the word phrase “all of exsitence gone in a flash, none shall outrun not even the light” and how all this relates too “B. C. as definition of pursuit as the defination of happiness as the definition of money that is the root all evil.” and the phrase “none shall be spared, no man, woman, child of nature, man or machine, rock or stone, water or fluid, living or died, now or future, past or present” and the phrase ” thats why the female has the child whether she wants too or not” and the phrase ” THUS SPEAKTH THE FATHER FARTHEST AWAY OF ALL”
PS. John thank you for you time.
Marina, interesting. Where did the phrase “poop deck” come from I wonder?
Other words for nincompoop?
How about : boob, ass, fool, moron, idiot, imbecile, ninnyhammer, dotard, retard, dullard. Is that enough, dear teacher?
Hello my dear teacher. I am brand new to the site, and look forward to many great lessons in the future! smart IS sexy after all.
Pssst! Wanna buy a hall pass?
Just kidding
Check out the Shout Outs on
the pulldown menu for some neat
pictures and stuff. You might
get a Gravatar that isn’t computer
generated, to. Another gimme;
The musical notes icon in the
email alert sign up box is a
media player with Marina’s
lesson music, Check it out
Marina et al.:
I wonder (In that picture w/ her friends), if Marina was you doing the Batman dance?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kR5eiFNNy0&feature =related
that’d be the ketchup song. nothing to do w/ batman.
can see the dance better in this version.
Seeing the ketchup dance makes me want to get some french fries!!
On the other hand, though, I didn’t see any evidence of Marina doing that in the picture. You see, where she has the pink top and either a black skirt or slacks her forefinger and middle finger were positioned in a “V” near her eyes. It looked almost as if she were sweeping hair out of her eye with the “V”, or the peace sign, just as Batman does in his dance from the first post.
However, the ketchup dance is different…VERY catchy and fun, but different
They first do some scissors-like motion with both hands in front of their body, followed by shaking their fists at the shoulders (as if they were shaking bottles of ketchup), followed lastly by putting one hand on the forehead and the other behind the shoulders as their knees knock together. I have no doubt that Marina would choose to do the much more stylish ketchup dance, yet there’s no movement with the “V” fingers around the eyes characteristic of the cheesy Batman dance 
how about this?
PERFECT!!!
It’s in way way better taste than the Batman AND it shows the “flying V” maneuver 
The true etymology is very simple. Nincom comes from “no income,” with the first and last letters dropped. Poop means you don’t get paid sh!t. So a nincompoop is someone who earns little or no money.
Any simpleton can tell you that the first letter of the word “no” is o.
Your Faux Frenchman here would like to point out that nicodème is pronounced nee-koh-dehm. The final “e” in nicodème is silent. I wonder if dotcompoop is a word? It would describe any web site put on the web by a nincompoop.
I requested some information on this many weeks ago and have not heard any reply. The word is “Charlie horse”. A very painful condition so way such a funny sounding word. I hope you don’t suffer from them while researching its origin.
Craigs_70345
tricky, oh I gotta go
Maroon, doofus (I forget how its spelled), and….. is stool pigeon one? I don’t know why that popped in my head, but I forget what it means. I’m blanked out at the moment.
Pig-in-a-Poke ~ nincompoop This is a good definition for me. My surname is German, as is poep. Thank you Dear Teacher.
Correction: as poep is a derogatory Dutch term for a German. Hmm, I wonder why the Dutch would say anything bad towards Germans. I heard the way you can tell a German is because you can’t tell him anything.
hi, could you please find out about the word… “Homie”?
Hi, What is the origin of the word odometer.
Thank you
Best you got? Duh
Additional homework: heard this one last night at
work Mooncalf
W.C Fields uses the term in “The Bank Dick”. He’s reasoning with his future son-in-law, trying to get him to steal from the bank. From memory the dialog went thusly, “You don’t want to be a mooncalf, do you? A fuddyduddy?”. “No.”. “Of course, not.”. Which brings up yet another word for your HotForWords sexpot, Marina, to investigate: Dick, as in detective.
Somebory could tell me be best translation to Spanish of the word nincompoop? Perhaps it is something like tonto, idiota….(I don’t know)
Is that why Lone Ranger’s partner was called “Tonto”?
- some kind of “amusing” slur foisted upon his poor assistant for not being the requisite race deserving of respect?
that bastard!! - {spits on Lone Ranger and kicks him in the nuts}
I get the end now.
Marina was practicing posing for a passport photo.
(Would you believe updating her KGB credentials?)
(P.S. for Marina’s countdown, we used to use the term “10 and a wake-up” until…)
I have always wondered why the term “I’m in stitches” means that somebody has made you laugh and I was wondering maybe you could investigate where it came from?
yes .. that’s right .. laugh at someone recovering from serious surgery.
You should be ashamed!
620 ChChing!!
Eaten dust 
#2 476
And we still have a few days to go.
Bust the thermometer.
did you see http://redhorsevector.net/
Why are you posting this all over the place stoeksjrj1?
stokesjrj1 on August 17th, 2008 10:18 pm
Koba=Kobayashi Maru= no win situation?………….little mermaid= a Hans Christen Anderson story, hmmm ant=wingless wasps hmmm…….. have two of these http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Ant+&se archmode=none
water under the step and the lump under my jaw
ANOTHER assumed identity??
I guess you just can’t be yourself
Here is stokes/redhorse/Sybil just before getting on this site every day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TcLfJQiGK0&feature =related
really a good lesson again
i like to request a word:
schadenfreude
as it is a german word, i was very a suprised to read it in an english book
thanks for reading, bye bye
i have a request how about the word:Scion(it sounds cool)
can u give us the orgin of miscellaneous & thanks
fan from egypt
miscellaneous
Hey hotforword can you tell me about Zobies.
How about:
springloaded in the dumb position
not the sharpest pencil in the box
a few cards short of a deck
The lights are on, but nobody’s home
Hey Hot For Words. I was wondering if you can investigate the origin of the word “stoked”. People use when they are excited for something.
Thanks!
Well, to stoke a fire is to make it burn bigger and hotter by either poking it, stirring the embers around, or putting on more fuel…like more coal, wood, or chemical like gas. When the fire is “stoked” it flares up & gets big.
Fire is often equated with the “heat” of your body being excited…people’s temperature starts to rise, their heart beats fast, they breathe faster, etc.
So, when a person is excited about something, it’s like their body was “stoked” by putting on more fuel or getting stirred up by something spectacular–like getting 100 million views or trying to win a contest
I bet Marina is stoked right about now 
Similarly, you may have heard “I’m on fire” or “I’m all fired up” in English, which both mean to be excited.
Since you did nicompoop, how about “dumb.”
I got a few words and phrases. The one I want to know the most is:
derriere
the others are:
pass the buck
the buck stops here
and last one is:
avatar.
Another word that is funny is Bafoon
Blonk
3rd
word request the thing we are all saying - WORD
omg! its actually made up of real words! i thought it was just made up by kids one day or something hehe.
reminds me of thingamabob or thingymajig.
my dad made some up, he says ’sploga’ (pronounced splow-gah) and gemundem (pronounced ger-moohn-duhm)
both words mean, yucky stuff. like vomit or sleep in the eyes or something like that.
LOL.
umm. vomit in the eyes? what?
lol nein aLx
sie wissen das
aber bitte bitte, wie sagt man ‘lol’ auf deutsch
bitte sagen sie zu mir
ich mochte das zu ihr sagen
entschuldigung, mein deutsch geht… nicht…
That would seem to fit with the set of things entitled “yucky stuff.”
umm, okay, i’ll copy and paste from yt.
“lol” is “lol”. visit any german chat room or forum … it’s always “lol”. some use ” *lach* “, though. but that’s different, it’s not an acronym.
umm. yeah.
“rofl, er hat ‘lol’ gesagt.” lol. uh huh.
ahhh, entschuldigung. ich habe mein youtube video comments nicht gesehen
oder gesehen nicht.
i try i try!
ich habe lol gesagt.
yay!
for you:
clickety bitte
click.
you’re welcome.
i like cake.
A few more:
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Not the brightest bulb on the tree
Not the sharpest/brightest crayon in the box
Not the sharpest Knife in the drawer
How about “Sharp as a Tennis Ball”?
http://redhorsevector.net/
nincompoop = daft as a pot cuckoo
word request-Dylanologist
This is sooooo neat
This is my first trip here, I only catch her on YT.
Did we ever find out what “Koba” means
Wow look at all the smiles
Ooops Homework:
Slow witted
dunce
meat head
fat head
fool
How long did you hang out @ youtube before you popped in to the ’site. Don’t get too excited about the smiley things… unless you’re a girl or something. Remember smiling faces tell lies & that’s the Undisputed Truth.
I’ve seen no word on Koba…except
Just messing with aLx
Don’t just gawk, get to work
Check out the pulldown menus.
There’s some cool stuff in the
Shout Outs. Take a look.
Nice Gravatar!
not any of that rhymed, melike
that was a terrible poem.
You should do the word: whatever.
now she is #1 with 529 and 2nd place is at 473
Who are you going to take with you
didn’t read the rules, huh?
“Representatives of the Sponsor will make the final selection among the three (3) Finalists to select the one (1) Grand Prize winner, based on style, originality, skill, and humor.”
so, as i understand it, it doesn’t matter if she comes in first, second, or third.
looks like you could use some joy in your life
wtf. go away.
point prooven
Damn O key “proven”
no.
haha 42frogs
its kind of aggravating. you didn’t say anything in your post other than the facts, nothing negative. everybody wants to post or read nothing but sweetness, like its candy for marina.
i guess to post and satisfy the children in the class room you should post like this, “Oh yippie skippie yum yums!!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif good news, good news!!!!!! even if our wonderful http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif sweet http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif adorable marina, comes in 3rd or 2nd she still has a chance at winning!!!!!! judges select the winner from the top three!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif wooo hooo!!!!!! i bet she’ll just charm the judges like she charms all our hearts http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif here at hfw, hee hee!!!!! but that doesn’t mean we should all stop voting, oh no!!!!!! we all have to vote with as much love and devotion as we have for our precious delightful marina!!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif gosh oh golly this is just super duper news!!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_biggrin.gif hugs, kisses and toe tickles, aLx”
now see, if you would have said it that way you wouldn’t get so much shit for clarifying the rules. excuse me i have to vomit now, typing that made me sick.
Buzz & aLx,
I agree w/ Buzz. I don’t care if you ask me to jump off a building, if it has “yum yums” and “toe tickles” I’m sooooo there.
Bombs away!!
Just like the USA Basketball team, Marina is running away with the gold.
Marina moved up 24 votes and #2 stayed the same.
YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE CREW OF HOTFORWORDS.COM!
http://redhorsevector.net/
ok
the vote 521 you got it toyota you are #1
have a good time marina happy for you 
I just wanted to see you say “cheeeeeese”.
She is now at 515!!!!!!
marina look in to this one someone says you are a fruitcake
Here’s a pear to go with my first request:
BOSC
Ich bin freudig etre avec vos societe du bon mots.
I-ay avehay onay OED-ay…
thus, my first words are below.
Por favor y Gracias
So, Marina, I was watching the Olympic diving and was struck by the fact that I had no idea of the etymology of the word “somersault.” Yes, I could investigate but it would be far more fun to hear you explain it.
Thanks in advance!
Tourguide
hi marina good video it was interesting i cant understand why anyone would say that Nicodemus naive he was a very highly educated man that picture of you nincompoop one on the side you look like uma therm-an in pulp fiction
Cheese Flights / Flight of Fancy ?
500! Sucka!
Nice!!
In another hour, it’s another voting day and more votes to come.
Hey Marina I would like to know the meaning of polyamorous. someone told me the word but wouldn’t tell me the meaning.
Marina 471 next 468
You Are Officially On Top Marina.
Took me about 18 accounts = 90 votes.
Ehh what the hell. I’ll keep going.
Everyone else should too.
Wow… Nice!
Hi Marina, My Irish Dad, now age 83, used Nincompoop
when we were kids… long ago… he also more commonly
used the word “Eejit”….
This is Irish (Gaelic) for a total Idiot, a nincompoop.
It also has a nice ring to it….
“You Eeeee- Jit, What were you thinking?”
It has a bit more of a fatherly affection to it than
some of the current USA slang. At least, I
remember it more fondly.
Other words in the same vein… thicko, moron, nitwit, gobshite
Don Imus, … now there’s a real pant load. Though Imus himself is fond of referring to certain, former guests to his shows, political types, as pant loads.
Your web pages are awesome, dude.
The soundtrack was like playing Doom!
Very sci-fi, very hi-tech - impressive
testing one, two, three, … testing …, and the trick is to keep it from being spam.
And I sure wish I can, could’ve thought of things to make, have made Marina shine brighter through it all. 
ok … what about …
capable v. able = same(ish)
what gives, Marina??!!
In my opinion ABLE has nothing to do with the suffix of CAPABLE.
ABLE is 100% Germanic. There was certainly a kind of contamination after the French invasion in the year 1066 but for instance AFLI in scandinavian means ABLE (FÄHIG in German).
If somebody can bring some water to my mill I will be thankful.
were you inviting somone to thow water on me? …
.. oh! .. mill
Its airplane video 465, Marina’s video 456 votes.
I voted again now it is at 491 She #1
Hey Teacher !
I doubt if you saw my reply to your last video, so i write back again !
I’ll request another word cause i found out regarding the word bureau i requested last time
I want to learn what quinquagesima means and it’s origin !
I wish you give me a lesson !
In the Best Weekend video our teacher was dancing in her sleep.
But I can’t find a name for “Sleep Dancing”.
There’s a song for Dancin in the Streets but not Dancin in your Sleep.
(Marina leaves #2 in the dust tomorrow)
Viva Words Vegas!!
I just voted more than 5 times today..was more like 6 or 7 so far
406 votes now
Hi Marina,
Not sure if you saw my response to your last video, since it quickly became older than this one. Just in case, I requested the origin of the word “Cap-a-pie”.
Thanks,
-mizu
Could this be what you are thinking about?
Nope, there is actually a word spelled Cap-a-pie. Meaning all points on your body from head to foot.
Well well! So there is. Never heard of it before.
Hotforwords must investigate.
I made like 5 emails to vote.
You WILL win Marina. 
silly goose
Hey, don’t be rude to your sister…
It’s a bad example for your fragile students…
As a replacement for the word nincompoop we can use the words inapprehensive, obtuse, purblind, thick, imbecile…
And a word request… What is the origin of the word origin?
Homework done, now I’m off… See ya!!!
Ignoranus
lol .. i’ll bet this is the most requested word that hasn’t yet been analysed.
oh, yes it has.
… here’s an appropriate poem for you to be getting on with ’til Marina tuns up with the vid …
[Evidently Chicken Town - John Cooper Clarke]
Go to the Maxim Radio shows that Marina has done in the past.
Good fun and Stretch has a great sense of humor.
Here’s your description and etymology. By none other than James.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVthSNUBre4
visible v. invisible ……… = opposite
flammable v. inflammable … = same
what gives, Marina?
Hey Mijj, Here is her Flammable inflammable video if you haven’t already seen it. That might take care of part of your equation, but invisible, visible part is up to her. Just trying to of a little service for you.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/10/05/inflammable- flammable/
Hi cap, we answered at just about the same time again. I watched the video first. In the video Marina does give the various meanings of “in” where in the case of invisible, the “in” means “not”.
wow .. thanks guys .. someone actually reads my posts!!
Hi mijj, she gives the answer in this great video.
She explains the different meanings of “in”.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/10/05/inflammable- flammable/
We must be on the same wave length or something. We can read each other minds from that great of a distance.
I didn’t watch the video again, but I am glad it covered both items for Mijj.
Karl here is a cool song my wife put me on today by Jimmy Buffet. I thought it was rather funny and close to home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i6OrOZwtmA
wow .. thanks guys .. someone actually reads my posts!!.
I read your comments all the time Mijj. You have some very excellent comments and explanations and make very good sense.