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A common name in Hungary, but in English "nimrod" has become a word meaning "blockhead."

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My younger brother's nickname givin my me. just kidding. i thought it would be funny to say so though. just so you know, i never looked up "nimrod" i looked up "nim" so i could see if the movie NIM had influesnced any naming

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In the Bible, King Nimrod was a great-grandson of Noah. Nimrod is also the legendary ancestor of the Hungarian people.

In English, a nimrod is a silly or foolish person.

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The 9th variation in the composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Nimrod, an album by Green Day
Pseudonym of August Jaeger, an Anglo-German music publisher
Pseudonym of Charles James Apperley, an English sportsman and author
Nimrod, a villain in Doctor Who audio plays
Nimrod, a fictional robot mutant hunter originating from Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men
Nimrod, a vampire from the black-and-white Marvel Comics Dracula Lives! series
Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
A railroad car in the television series The Wild Wild West
The Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools featured in ESPN advertisements
Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface
Nimrod is the nickname of a serial-killer in the comic Sandman