ninny

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Jane Austen wrote takedowns of this kind of ninny two centuries ago — how fun to see Pike update her twit to the post-Y2K era.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

The people who are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would have you believe that you are a ninny because you might wish for such a thing.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

When Life Is Beautiful won best foreign language film, its director Roberto Benigni won the hearts of the world by clambering across the backs of the auditorium’s chairs like a terrible manchild ninny.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2017

Siegfried can seem a passive ninny in the traditional “Swan Lake”; here he’s even more passive and delusional.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2015

"And you're a clodpoll," said the girl, bitterly, "and a ninny, a numbskull, a lackwit and a coxcomb!"

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman