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nunny

nunny is the alternative form of ninny.

nunny is the ellipsis of nunny bag.

Meaning of ninny

Noun

ninny (plural ninnies)

  1. (informal) A silly or foolish person.
    • Byd. […] a good cheeke, an inticing eye, a smooth skinne, a well shapt leg, a faire hand, you cannot bring a wench into a fooles parradize for you?
      Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her?1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, Act V

Meaning of nunny bag

Noun

nunny bag (plural nunny bags)

  1. (Newfoundland) A rucksack, especially one made from sealskin

Noun

nunny (plural nunnies)

  1. (diminutive) Grandmother.
    • The greatest influence on my childhood faith was my maternal grandmother Elizabeth, my "Nunny." She and my grandfather lived across the street from us.1994, Muto, Susan Annette & Van Kaam, Adrian L., Divine guidance : seeking to find and follow the will of God, page 18
    • Nunny is what we call our grandmothers. [...] In contrast, Nunny for my niece is my mother. [...] Her Nunny smiles broadly in her squinted, green satin evening suit…2006, Carol Birch, Whole Story Handbook, page 37

Forms of nunny

pluralnunnies

Origin of nunny

Possibly coined as a variant of nanny or from baby-talk. Many Italian-Americans use "nonna," "nonni," or "nonnie" for their grandmothers.

Words formed from nunny

Phrases with nunny

Questions about nunny

What does nunny mean?
Nunny means grandmother.
What is nunny the alternative form of?
Nunny is the alternative form of ninny.
What part of speech is nunny?
Nunny is a noun.
What is the plural of nunny?
The plural of nunny is nunnies.

Words near nunny in the dictionary

  1. Nunniong
  2. nunnish
  3. nunnishly
  4. nunnishness
  5. Nunns
  6. nunny
  7. nunny bag
  8. nunny bags
  9. nunny-bag
  10. Nunnykirk
  11. nunnywatch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nunny (page history and authors); ninny (page history and authors); nunny bag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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