Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fool; a simpleton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A simpleton; a fool.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A simpleton; a fool.

Etymologies

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Of doubtful origin.

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Examples

  • O that I were so happy as to light on a nupson now of this justice's novice!

    Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605

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  • Whence comes this alarming eruption

    Of ravening public corruption?

    Can voters in masses

    Be consummate asses

    And Everyman be a blunt nupson?

    December 16, 2017