Ninny
['nɪnɪ] or ['nɪni]
Definition
(n.) A fool; a simpleton.
Typist: Pansy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.
Editor: Sonya
Definition
n. a simpleton.—Also Ninn′y-hamm′er.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Examples
- The Colonel is a ninny, my dear; because he has two thousand a-year himself, he thinks that nobody else can marry on less. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They aren't filled up with Latin, philosophy, and the rest of that ninny stuff. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Maura