词汇 | nimrod |
释义 | nimrod Theme: PEOPLE - STUPID n. a simpleton; a nerd.Susan is a total nimrod. She does such dumb things!What stupid nimrod left the lid off the cottage cheese? nimrod noun a fool, a stupid person, a bungler. Jonathan Lighter writes that 'currency of the term owes much to its appearance in a 1940s Warner Bros. cartoon in which Bugs Bunny refers to the hunter Elmer Fudd as "poor little Nimrod"'. It is not clear that watchers of the cartoon understood the C18 sense of the word as 'a great hunter', but the term has stuck US, 1932nimrodA doofus; a fool; an ignoramus. Some nimrod forgot to close the safety latch, and now the whole machine is busted! Billy, you nimrod—that's not how that thing works! nimrod(ˈnɪmrɑd) n. a simpleton; a nerd. What stupid nimrod left the lid off the cottage cheese? |
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