nimrod
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Is nimrod a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly US, informal, derogatory) A foolish person; an idiot.Examples: "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."; "“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. It ends now.”"Synonyms: doofus, fathead, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrainUSderogatoryinformal
name (English)
1. (biblical) A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.Examples: "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."; "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 speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia."
Definition source: Wiktionary