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ninny

[ US /ˈnɪni/ ]
[ UK /nˈɪni/ ]
NOUN
  1. a stupid foolish person

How To Use ninny In A Sentence

  • “Stop being such an old ninnyhammer,” chided Aunt Agatha, giving Hilda a sharp elbow. Chasing a Rogue
  • Nobody, unless he's an arrogant ninny, would ever say ‘I am an intellectual.’
  • Oh Richard Whittington you have made me laugh, never in my life have I been called a ninny! The Guardian World News
  • Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour. Harry's Place
  • I was just thinking, if he did mean those statements as they sound, what a fatuous ninnyhammer that would make him! Speaking as one old fart to another
  • By the way, this is the first time I've heard "ninny" used in a sentence by an adult in about 70 years. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa: Deja Ew!
  • I was wont to point out that since the sea presented an impassable barrier, the sand spit, drawn out to a fine point, was just the spot where a piccaninny might be easily rounded up, if it were detected in a preoccupied mood. My Tropic Isle
  • Nate, when you said "picaninny" in referring to what Sam Malone is not, I was sure you were wrong because I thought a picaninny was named such as a consequence of picking cotton. Ghizzy Attacks Malone, Again
  • If you want to survive, you shivering ninny, you might as well shoot off your big toe.
  • When, of course, one is the product of a yammering ninnyhammer, while the other is the product of actual scientific effort. Breast beginnings - The Panda's Thumb
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