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In some senses, nimrod is marked as derogatory, informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
nimrod
/ˈnɪmrɒd/
noun 3name 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
biblical, developed, mighty
VERB + NIMROD
give, going, make
NIMROD + NOUN
bucks, descendant, erdman, erekh, f, nick, traces
PREP.
after, in, in, on, out, with
ADV.
highly
Definitions
noun
1
A foolish person; an idiot.
Don't stick your fingers in the fan, you nimrod!
Jules, if you give this nimrod fifteen hundred bucks, I'm gonna shoot 'em on general principle.
name
1
A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.
Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.
In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'.[…]In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.
2
A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.
3
A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.
noun
1
Any great hunter.
Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.
2
Alternative letter-case form of nimrod (“fool; idiot”).
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Don't stick your fingers in the fan, you nimrod!
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Jules, if you give this nimrod fifteen hundred bucks, I'm gonna shoot 'em on general principle.
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“I can't keep doing this. Uh, I can't keep pretending to be Mr. Charisma to all these nimrods. It's awful.” “But the Energy Vampire Council said we have to win, or else.” [exhales] “No. No. No. Enough
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Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.
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In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'.[…]In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the f
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The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also spe
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