Definition of Ninny

1. Noun. A stupid foolish person.

Exact synonyms: Nincompoop, Poop
Generic synonyms: Simple, Simpleton

Definition of Ninny

1. n. A fool; a simpleton.

Definition of Ninny

1. Noun. a silly or foolish person ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ninny

1. a fool [n -NIES] : NINNYISH [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninny

ninja
ninja loot
ninja looted
ninja looting
ninja loots
ninja star
ninjaed
ninjaing
ninjalike
ninjas
ninjitsu
ninjitsus
ninjutsu
ninjutsus
ninnies
ninny (current term)
ninnyhammer
ninnyhammers
ninnyish
ninnyism
ninnyisms
ninon
ninons
ninpo
ninteenth
ninth
ninth-day erythema
ninth chord
ninth chords
ninth cranial nerve

Literary usage of Ninny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"The Colonel is a ninny, my dear ; because he has two thousand a-year himself, ... I haint such a ninny as that, said Beck, with majestic contempt. ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"... a novice, ninny, witless and inexperienced gull.—Cot. The meaning of gull is simply unfledged bird, in which sense it is still used in Cheshire. ..."

3. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens, United States Congress (1866)
"There arc not ninny blacks in North Carolina ? Answer. The white population is a little more .... ninny ..."

4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... ninny pieces of mother-of-pearl. rom it depends a cross, also set with emeralds \A pearls. ... ninny ..."

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