A foolish or annoying person.
"Could you two nincompoops cut it out!?" Said the mother to her two sons arguing.
An absolute fool, someone who is so dumb and such an ignorant idiot that they have earned the name nincompoop.
“Did you see how much of a nincompoop that guy Seth is, almost as bad as Xavi”
Look, if you get called this in the big '25, you truly gotta kill yourself. No other option.
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A stupid person, clearly like you.
"Well... you're a nincompoop! A stupid, stupid, nincompoop!"
A silly person.
What my mum calls me all the time...
Me: I was looking for the doughnuts but they were right infront of my face!
My mum: You nincompoop!
In the 18th century, an obscene insult that meant ‘one who never saw his wife’s cunt’. — from the book Vulgar Tongues.
Do not take courting advice from that nincompoop Bartholomew.
(nbc with its related cousin nincompoop): a person criticized as a nincompoop not because they are one per se but because they arrogant, megalomaniacal spendthrifts, -therefore behaving like nincompoops in the eyes of the person doing the criticizing.
Louis XIV of France, according to some, was never a nincompoop, but a real socio-nincompoop