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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.

Posted by Marina on August 25, 2008 · Filed under Lessons  

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  1. leonard says:
    142
    January 3, 2009 at 11:33 am

    Holy Shit…woebegone…saltpeter…..”pernicious weed”…diptotious…dyptech

  2. matalexwolf says:
    141
    October 14, 2008 at 10:07 am

    A Spoony……

  3. hutchiee says:
    140
    September 17, 2008 at 6:21 am

    Whoa, extreme kitchen echo :???:

  4. stokesjrj1 says:
    139
    September 8, 2008 at 3:56 am

    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.

  5. sniperskaya says:
    138
    August 30, 2008 at 10:22 am

    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?

  6. jeenyus says:
    137
    August 28, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    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.

    • melikadothechacha says:
      137.1
      August 28, 2008 at 8:37 pm

      Pssst! Wanna buy a hall pass?
      Just kidding :mrgreen:
      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 :grin:

  7. duke veritas says:
    136
    August 26, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    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

    • aLx says:
      136.1
      August 27, 2008 at 9:31 am

      that’d be the ketchup song. nothing to do w/ batman.

      • aLx says:
        136.1.1
        August 27, 2008 at 9:34 am

        can see the dance better in this version.

      • duke veritas says:
        136.1.2
        August 27, 2008 at 1:00 pm

        Seeing the ketchup dance makes me want to get some french fries!!
        :wink:

        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 :smile: 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 :lol:

  8. lividemerald says:
    135
    August 26, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    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. :wink:

  9. lividemerald says:
    134
    August 26, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    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.

  10. craigs_70345 says:
    133
    August 26, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    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

  11. leonard says:
    132
    August 26, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    tricky, oh I gotta go

  12. animalntaz says:
    131
    August 26, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    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. :???:

  13. pig-in-a-poke says:
    130
    August 26, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Pig-in-a-Poke ~ nincompoop This is a good definition for me. My surname is German, as is poep. Thank you Dear Teacher.

    • pig-in-a-poke says:
      130.1
      August 26, 2008 at 10:38 am

      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.

  14. thumpinglikethis says:
    129
    August 26, 2008 at 9:34 am

    hi, could you please find out about the word… “Homie”? :smile:

  15. lovetolearn says:
    128
    August 26, 2008 at 7:57 am

    Hi, What is the origin of the word odometer.
    Thank you

  16. sandersfan012 says:
    127
    August 26, 2008 at 7:01 am

    :wink: hey i was wondering if u could invetigate the word deusche pls :?:

  17. tayljim says:
    126
    August 26, 2008 at 6:04 am

    Additional homework: heard this one last night at
    work Mooncalf

    • muggins says:
      126.1
      August 26, 2008 at 10:35 am

      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.

  18. jamidf says:
    125
    August 26, 2008 at 5:54 am

    Somebory could tell me be best translation to Spanish of the word nincompoop? Perhaps it is something like tonto, idiota….(I don’t know)

    • mijj says:
      125.1
      August 26, 2008 at 7:36 am

      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}

  19. wetsuit5 says:
    124
    August 26, 2008 at 5:32 am

    I get the end now. :shock:
    Marina was practicing posing for a passport photo. :wink: :wink:
    (Would you believe updating her KGB credentials?) :lol: :lol:

    (P.S. for Marina’s countdown, we used to use the term “10 and a wake-up” until…)

  20. abc-basics says:
    123
    August 26, 2008 at 5:29 am

    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?

  21. wetsuit5 says:
    122
    August 26, 2008 at 4:59 am

    620 ChChing!! :!: :!: :cool: :cool:
    #2 476 :eek: Eaten dust :?:
    And we still have a few days to go. :razz: :razz:
    Bust the thermometer. :idea:

    :lol: :lol: :mrgreen: :lol: :lol:

  22. itgirl85 says:
    121
    August 26, 2008 at 4:12 am

    really a good lesson again :grin:
    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

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