What Bugs Can Do!

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Meaning of the word "Maroon":

1. Maroons were free blacks who formed communities throughout the Carribean and Americas, most notably in the Great Dismal Swamp and Florida. These people were bravely attempting to set up a parallel existance to antebellum American society. They fought in the Seminole War, the only Indian war that ended without a peace treaty!

2. Occasionally I see someone online make a particular insulting comment: "What a maroon!". How can we use the term "Maroon" as an insult?

Apparantly cartoon character Bugs Bunny is responsible for the 2nd meaning. Listen to Bugs.

Meaning of the word "Nimrod":

1. Genesis 10:8-9, in describing how the Seventy Nations were founded by the descendants of Noah, says that Nimrod, son of Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah, was "a mighty man on earth" and "a mighty hunter before the LORD". The word "nimrod" is recorded in English since 1545 with the (now obsolete) meaning "tyrant", and since 1712 with the meaning "hunter".

2. (Informal) A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid.

Again the 2nd meaning is all thanks to Bugs who used it to mock the hapless hunter Elmer Fudd. Listen to “poor little Nimrod”.