Noun

(en noun)

A silly or foolish person.

* {{quote-book

, year=1680 , author=Matthew Stevenson , title=The wits paraphras'd: or, Paraphrase upon paraphrase: In a burlesque on the several late translations of Ovids Epistles ... citation , page=161 , passage=Tis such another Nincompoop ,
I sleep, and he begins to droop.
He sees, yet keeps his Eyes a winking,
Says nought, but pays it off with thinking. }}

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, year=1694 , author=Thomas D'Urfey , title=The Comical History of Don Quixote: As it was Acted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset-Garden ... , chapter=Part I, Act I, Scene I citation , page=6 , passage=...Heaven knows the time when? Art not thou asham’d to see me, thou Nincompoop ? }}

* 1905: Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=507211157&tag=Orczy,+Baroness:+The+Scarlet+Pimpernel,+1905&query=+nincompoop&id=OrcPimp]

No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop , the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies...

Noun

(en noun)

(slang, Australia, New Zealand) An idiot.

* 1983 , Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers , Penguin 2009, p. 126:

*:‘In there, you nong ,’ Max said, pointing out a pink-brick home with a 1950s skillion roof.

* 2008 , Michael Panckridge, Hat Trick! Toby Jones, Books 1-3 , 2010, unnumbered page,

‘You guys are such nongs ! Why would you want to face up to Shoaib Akhtar when you could win a World Cup against the young blond Aussie star at the home of cricket?’

* 2010 , John Dale (editor), Best on Ground: Great Writers on the Greatest Game , unnumbered page,

and spend every second Saturday defiant and one-eyed among the opposition nongs at the Barkly Street end.

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