or nickumpoop, subs. (common).—An impotent ass.—B. E. (c. 1696); A New Canting Dictionary (1725).
1673. SHADWELL, Epsom Wells, II., in Wks. (1720), ii., 217. Yes, you NICOMPOOP! you are a pretty fellow to please a woman indeed!
1677. WYCHERLEY, The Plain Dealer, ii. Wid. Thou senseless, impertinent, quibbling, drivelling, feeble, paralytic, NINCOMPOOP!
1706. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, I., x., p. 9. Thus did the sundry Female Troops, Conducted by their NINCOMPOOPS, In scatt’ring Numbers, jostling meet.
1764. FOOTE, The Mayor of Garratt, i. Sneak. I come, lovy!… Bruin. Trot, NINCOMPOOP.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. NICKUMPOOP, or NINCUMPOOP, one who never saw his wife’s ——.
1821. SCOTT, Kenilworth, xi. Wayland Smith expressed … his utter scorn for a NINCOMPOOP who stuck his head under his wife’s apron-string.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. NINCUM-POOP, a term of derision, applied by a young lass to her lover, who presses not his suit with vigour enough.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘Jerry Jarvis’s Wig,’ ii., 367. Ackerman would have called him a ‘Snob,’ and Buckland a ‘NINCOMPOOP.’
1855. Punch’s Almanack, ‘A Farmer’s opinion of Conscience Money.’
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1883. GREENWOOD, Fishing for ‘Jack,’ in Odd People in Odd Places, 101. His behaviour is that of the most consummate ‘NINCOM.’ that ever was led with an apron-string.
