英语词汇nincompoop的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	nincompoop
词源	nincompoop. Dr. Johnson suggested that nincompoop, “a fool or blockhead,” came from the Latin non compos mentis, “of unsound mind,” but the earliest forms of the word, first record- ed in about 1676, are nicimpoop and nickumpoo, making this unlikely. The word is probably “a fanciful formation,” as the O. E.D. puts it, of obscure origin.
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