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Definition of Ninny
1. Noun. A stupid foolish person.
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
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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