ninnyhammer
Example Sentences
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"You ninnyhammer," said she to her son, "you should have carried it on your shoulder."
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
You needn't attempt to argue with me, because you are a ninnyhammer, and I am a second Nestor.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
"Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?"—ARBUTHNOT: ib., w.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
That will do, Direxia; you mean well, but you are a ninnyhammer.
From Mrs. Tree by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
I pursued the sad inquiry: 'A noodle, a pigwidgeon, a ninnyhammer, a bubble on the wave, a leaf in the wind, Madame!'
From More Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
