ninnyhammer

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"You ninnyhammer," said she to her son, "you should have carried it on your shoulder."

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Here, help me! the other side, ninnyhammer!

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That will do, Direxia; you mean well, but you are a ninnyhammer.

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Before I knew you were the abject ninnyhammer that you have just told me you are I had a good opinion of you, and thought that you were cut out to make a first-class traveller and explorer—the sort of a fellow who could lead a surveying expedition through the wilderness, or work up new countries and find out what they are made of and what’s in them.

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I pursued the sad inquiry: 'A noodle, a pigwidgeon, a ninnyhammer, a bubble on the wave, a leaf in the wind, Madame!'

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