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ninny
[ nin-ee ]
noun
- a fool or simpleton.
ninny
/ ˈnɪnɪ /
noun
- a dull-witted person
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Derived Forms
- ˈninnyish, adjective
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Other Words From
- ninny·ish adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ninny1
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Example Sentences
Before forty there is yet a chance that the budding ninny may desert, and degenerate into a prig, a Philistine, or a physician.
And you would spill blood sooner than your betters should know it—ye ninny-cumpoops!
You ninny, do you suppose it was by accident that Elsin Grey became our guest?
But I went to the girl herself, as you would have done if you hadn't been such a ninny; but you're always a ninny.
He's not such a ninny-headed feller neither as you seem to take him for, Mr. Sedley.
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