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Bookmark or Share- When/How did "Nimrod" become an insult? : r/etymology - RedditThe other is more comprehensible, but I wonder if anyone here can add to it or dispute it: "The expression, 'before the Lord,' intimates, not merely that the Lord was cognizant of his proceedings, for he knoweth all things, but that Nimrod himself made no secret his designs, pursued them with a bold front and a high hand, and at the same time ...
- How did "Nimrod," the name of a skillful hunter mentioned in ... - RedditThe Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest recorded instance of "Nimrod" meaning a "stupid or contemptible person" as 1933 B. Hecht & G. Fowler Great Magoo iii. i. 183 He's in love with her. That makes about the tenth. The same old Nimrod. Won't let her alone for a second. Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1940.
- When did the word "nimrod" become an insult? An urban legend ... - RedditNimrod didn't become an insult in the UK even though they also watched the same cartoons on TV. This might have been because of the yearly playing of Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations on Remembrance Sunday. Also the British Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft which was in the use during the 1960s to the 1980s.
- The 1983 source for nimrod being used by teenagers to mean ... - RedditLee describes a "young nimrod from the West", who in declining an appointment to West Point expressed the concern that "I hope my country will not be endangered by my doing so."[52] Although Lee may have been sarcastically referring to the student as a "tyrant or skillful hunter", the modern usage more closely fits his message.
- Why is this character called “Nimrod”? This is the most ... - RedditFalse. Nimrod was already an insult. Looney Toons didn't start that tradition; the entire reason it was used as an insult in that cartoon is because people already recognized it as such. Nimrod is a character from the Bible; specifically he was called the first man to be mighty in the Earth, and he was behind the Tower of Babel.
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