📚 Nincompoop, noun. 🔉 /ˈnɪŋkəmpuːp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A foolish or stupid person. ❗️ Examples: 1. And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops who insist on chatting away on their cell phones during the show - if their cell phones are equipped with recorders. 2. The best it can do is take people's minds off it by producing wow-provoking new initiatives and making National look like a bunch of nincompoops. 3. Reading such works, I am inclined to throw the egotistical nincompoops out the window - as this is frequently impossible, I content myself with throwing the relevant books across the room. 4. Costume rental shops report brisk business in trying to keep up with the insatiable demand of name-dropping nincompoops looking for funky fashions and gaudy gowns to wear for the event. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic