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==Language== The American use of ''[[nimrod]]'' to mean "idiot" is often said to have originated from <!-- this claim is erroneous, but it is what the source says --> Bugs's exclamation "What a nimrod!" to describe the inept hunter Elmer Fudd.<ref>Garner, Bryan A. (3rd Edition, 2009). ''Garner's Modern American Usage'', p. liii. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-538275-7}}.</ref> However, it is Daffy Duck who refers to Fudd as "my little nimrod" in the 1948 short ''What Makes Daffy Duck'',<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Arthur Davis (director) |date=14 February 1948|title=What Makes Daffy Duck |type=Animated short |language=English| time=5:34|quote=Precisely what I was wondering, my little Nimrod.}}</ref> and the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] records earlier negative uses of the term "nimrod".<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'' 3rd edition, updated 2020, [https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/127171 ''s.v.'']</ref><!--OED has a 1933 quote-->
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