Nincompoop vs Poop - What's the difference?
nincompoop | poop |
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 ...
I sleep, and he begins to droop.
He sees, yet keeps his Eyes a winking,
Says nought, but pays it off with thinking. }}* {{quote-book
, 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
* 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]
To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
* We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
To embark a ship over the stern.
(obsolete) To make a short blast on a horn
(obsolete) To break wind.
To defecate.
(often, childish) Excrement.
* The dog took a poop on the grass.
The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
(US, dated) information, facts.
A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
* Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.
To tire, exhaust. Often used with out .
* I'm pooped from working so hard
* He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.
As nouns the difference between nincompoop and poop
is that nincompoop is a silly or foolish person while poop is the stern of a ship or poop can be (often|childish) excrement or poop can be a set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process or poop can be a slothful person.As a verb poop is
to break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck or poop can be (obsolete|intransitive) to make a short blast on a horn or poop can be to tire, exhaust often used with out .nincompoop
English
Noun
(en noun)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. }}
citation, page=6 , passage=...Heaven knows the time when? Art not thou asham’d to see me, thou Nincompoop ? }}
- 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...
Derived terms
* nincompooperySynonyms
* (foolish person) dunderhead, fop, fool, imbecile, fuckwit * See alsopoop
English
Etymology 1
Recorded since circa 1405, from (etyl) poupe, from (etyl) poppa, from (etyl) puppis, all meaning "stern of a ship".Derived terms
* poop deckSynonyms
* sternAntonyms
* bowVerb
(en verb)Etymology 2
Origin uncertain, possibly from (etyl) poupen.Verb
(en verb)- His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.
Noun
- 2001 , , Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 157 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001
- Two minutes passed - five - seven- ten. "Poop'! ' Poop !" Everyone knew that whistle, and a mighty cheer went up as the Queen's train glided into the station.
