People use it as an insulting name to call someone.
The dictionary defines a "nimrod" as a hunter (look it up.) Also, a guy named Nimrod in the Bible (Genesis) is described as a mighty hunter. Nowhere can I find it to mean you are stupid. It looks like those misusing the word "nimrod" are the ones that are stupid. What's up with that?
2006-08-25 16:07:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
its funny that you ask that. People take things and run with it cause it just sounds insulting. ok now think of D.i.c.k. if you knew someone by that name wouldnt you think it was horrible that his parents named him that? its associated with penis so that makes it a bad word to say. Just the other day my husband was calling our 7 month old by making kissing noises so I told him not to treat her like a puppy. He thought that was so silly of me to say that just because most consider it a way to call an animal doesnt make it an animal call.
2006-08-25 17:35:04 · answer #1 · answered by redserenity0804 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hahaha! People keep changing the way they use words, or picking a relatively unknown word and giving it a new meaning. A great many words today are used in ways that bear no relation to their dictionary definitions. That's why slang is such a constantly changing form of language, and why young people, in particular, use words in different ways. If the 'older generation' understands what you're saying, then it's no longer cool. By the time the dictionary definition of Nimrod embraces this new usage, it will be out of fashion and another word will have replaced it.
C'est comme il faut!
2006-08-25 16:17:37 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read it has to do with Looney Tunes, as absurd as it may sound. There s one episode where Elmer Fudd (also a hunter...and not the sharpest tool in the shed) following a wabbit stumbles upon a sign sayin Nimrod was here , hence the wrong association of the therm Nimrod and stupidity.
2016-12-04 23:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by Kasa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say it to yourself. Nimrod. Nimrod. How can you not take that word and just run with it? Dorcas is the same way. Words get used in a lot of different ways. Language is like an art. It breaks its own rules all the time.
2006-08-25 16:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by Eugena 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Being a UK Citizen I though a Nimrod was an aeroplane based on the original first commercial jet aircraft used by the Air Force to spy on stuff.
Or one of Elgar's passages from . .
Well not being a Nimrod you will know that piece
2006-08-25 16:26:07 · answer #5 · answered by dougie boy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-15 21:35:08 · answer #6 · answered by hafner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nimrod is a fun word.
2006-08-25 16:09:45 · answer #7 · answered by pamela_d_99 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nimrod is shcool mascot here in northern Michgan they were on a tv ad for espn.
http://www.watersmeet.k12.mi.us/index.html
http://www.absolutemichigan.com/media/?articleid=1941
2006-08-25 16:22:23 · answer #8 · answered by bleacherbrat34 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I actually knew a guy named, "Nimrod".
2006-08-25 16:10:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
uh, is that the biggest question of your life?
2006-08-25 16:10:43 · answer #10 · answered by Spadesboffin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋