Definitions
Etymologies
- In most English-speaking countries, Nimrod is used to describe a hunter or warrior, after the biblical character of Nimrod, who is described as "a mighty hunter". (Wiktionary)
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This nimrod is advocating government, by the libs for money and special interest.”
“One thing I do know — the worst thing that can happen to a beginning nimrod is to take a fine trophy the first time out.”
“The saddest part is that any information coming from anywhere will most likely be clamped down on and shut off from the regular folks, leaving us with that Kristin nimrod and Ausiello and his frak attacks …”
“DNFP, read the comment again nimrod, jwest wrote “mogoloid” not MONGOLOID”.”
“I really don’t know much about the funding of Thinkprogress other than the distict lack of advertising but if this Judd nimrod is getting paid theres 2 people need firing.”
Think Progress » McClellan: I Can’t Comment Because Harriet Miers Told Me Not To
“Or does "nimrod" mean something else to you, much as facts regarding 9/11 do?”
I'm assailed in the local paper for failing to take the 9/11 truthers seriously.
“A friend loaned his shotgun to Vern, while someone the Press termed a "nimrod" volunteered to fly with him and crawled into the front seat.”
“Attacks on a person's intellect because you don't like her ideology reveal more about the attacker than about the person being branded a "nimrod," an "ultraconservative right-winger," a "birther", or whatever.”
“Because the tower resulted in the wrath of the Lord and proved a disastrous idea, "nimrod" is sometimes used with yet another meaning: "a stupid person.”
“nimrod" has seen some use in English as a noun meaning "tyrant" (apparently, the mighty Nimrod was not reputed to be an especially benevolent king), although that sense is now essentially obsolete.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nimrod’.
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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The Penis Game
Euphemisms for the penis.
See also:
A Testicle by Any Other Name
Ward, I'm worried about the beavermale interfemoral..., penis, dick, cock, prick, willy, percy, peter, one-eyed trouser ..., piece of pork, wife's best friend, dong and 79 more...
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[Open] Excellent Potential Cat Names
Please use the lowercase form of words that don’t usually appear as proper names (unless the word should be capitalized for other reasons). Words that are used primarily or exclusively as names (e...
domovoi, домово́й, Schroedinger, Feral, debulition, zenzizenzizenzic, Schrödinger, zenzizenzic, snarf, crepuscular ray, crepusculum, hell and 26 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
nincompoop, dimwit, moron, cretin, idiot, meathead, dingbat, nerd, loony, fool, dunce, lamebrain and 31 more...
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Nom de Guerre Finder
You've taken all the other quizzes--you've already used the name of your first pet and you're tired of having to use the name of the first street where you lived. Now it's time to find your excitin...
odyssey, dawn, desert, storm, noble, eagle, shield, freedom, enduring, swift, sharp, edge and 50 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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pcofdirt's Words
besmirched, befuddled, ai, sanguineous, antidisestablishm..., ablation, ascertain, ascerbic, aardvark, begot, benign, buggery and 118 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nimrod.
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