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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A hunter.
  2. n. Informal A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A silly or foolish person; An idiot.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (Old Testament) a famous hunter

Etymologies

  1. After Nimrod. Sense 2, probably from the phrase "poor little Nimrod,” used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny to mock the hapless hunter Elmer Fudd.

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  • gabi A word about Nimrod. Very interesting. Being Hungarian born , I know, that the noun is a personal noun, and not even any kind, but belongs to group oƒ one of our early heroes,as early, as the year 900. Two questions, how did it happened that our Hungarian national figure serves as an american entertaining figure, the second is, how is it that it is not found in the etymological section?Hm....Gabi Sep 7, 2009

‘nimrod’ has been looked up 1566 times, loved by 3 people, added to 31 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 9.