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ninny-pinny

ninny-pinny adjective: silly, ridiculous, ninnyish.

Adjective

ninny-pinny (comparative more ninny-pinny, superlative most ninny-pinny)

  1. (dialectal) Silly, ridiculous, ninnyish.
    • But the Country's confidence in the Government had to be maintained at all costs; hence the comical, side-glance, slantingdicular, ninny-pinny way in which the "King's Book," for the most part, is drawn up.1902, Henry Hawkes Spink, The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter; […], London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., page 375
    • They looked so sweet, so innocent, when they were asleep. The girl had little yellow curls — not like these ninny-pinny clipped heads you see nowadays.1934, Dorothy M'Cleary, “Winter”, in Edward J[oseph] O'Brien, editor, 50 Best American Short Stories: 1915–1939, New York, N.Y.: The Literary Guild of America, Inc., published 1939, page 573

Forms of ninny-pinny

comparativemore ninny-pinny
superlativemost ninny-pinny

Questions about ninny-pinny

What does ninny-pinny mean?
Ninny-pinny means silly, ridiculous, ninnyish.
What part of speech is ninny-pinny?
Ninny-pinny is an adjective.

Words near ninny-pinny in the dictionary

  1. Ninnemans
  2. ninnery
  3. ninnies
  4. Ninnis
  5. ninny
  6. ninny-pinny
  7. ninnyhammer
  8. ninnyhammers
  9. ninnyish
  10. ninnyism
  11. ninnyisms

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