ninny
Use Ninny in a sentence
i noun, plural nin·nies.
a fool or simpleton.
Related forms
nin·ny·ish, adjective
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| —n , pl -nies | |
| a dull-witted person | |
| [C16: perhaps from an innocent simpleton] | |
| 'ninnyish | |
| —adj | |
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Ninny
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
ninny
"simpleton, fool," 1593, perhaps a misdivision of an innocent, or from the pet form of the proper name Innocent, with sense influenced by the name's literal meaning. There may be some influence in the word of It. ninno "baby, child."
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Example sentences
All this from someone who isn't a ninny in any other way.
But she is such a sweetly smiling fraud, such an artlessly helpless ninny, that one feels virtually nothing for her.
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