Nimrod

For years, I've used the word nimrod interchangeably for nitwit or dipsh*t without thinking about it. Interestingly, the American Heritage Dictionary has two definitions listed:

1. also Nimrod A hunter.
2. Informal A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid.

Etymology: After Nimrod*. Sense 2, probably from the phrase "poor little Nimrod," used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny to mock the hapless hunter Elmer Fudd.

*In the Bible, a mighty hunter and king of Shinar who was a grandson of Ham and a great-grandson of Noah. Nimrod, "the mighty hunter before the Lord," was the founder of the city of Babylon and a mighty conquering ruler who was worshipped as the Sun god, Baal, in his deified form.

Babylonian sun god to Elmer Fudd. How the mighty have fallen.