ninnery
/ˈnɪnəɹi/
ninnery noun: ninnyish behavior; foolery; foolishness.
Noun
ninnery (countable and uncountable, plural ninneries)
- Ninnyish behavior; foolery; foolishness.
- Those loose “Arabian tales” of the great border-cities, were but profane ninnery to their stern natural judgments.1888, Charles M. Doughty, “Life in the Wandering Village” (chapter IX), in Travels in Arabia Deserta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 263
- I wasn't surprised to find him virulently anti-clerical, and was rather pleased when he told me that he thought that “all theology was sophisticated ninnery”.1984 [1982], H. A. Williams, Someday I'll Find You, Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 90
Examples of ninnery in a sentence
- The discovery that Lily, behind all her romantic ninnery, is hard as bricks.2004, Peter Parker, Isherwood: A Life Revealed, Random House, →ISBN, page 130:
- The arguments were common nonsense, the theme was a ninnery.Summer 2014, Mia Couto, “War of the Clowns”, in Eric M. B. Becker, transl., The Massachusetts Review, volume 55, number 2, page 246:
Forms of ninnery
| plural | ninneries |
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Origin of ninnery
From ninny + -ery.
Questions about ninnery
- What does ninnery mean?
- Ninnery means ninnyish behavior; foolery; foolishness.
- How do you use ninnery in a sentence?
- The discovery that Lily, behind all her romantic ninnery, is hard as bricks.
- What part of speech is ninnery?
- Ninnery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ninnery?
- Ninnery is pronounced /ˈnɪnəɹi/.
- What is the plural of ninnery?
- The plural of ninnery is ninneries.
Words near ninnery in the dictionary
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