What does ninny mean?
Ninny means (informal) A silly or foolish person..
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/ˈnɪni/ · noun
(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?
Caliban: What a py'de Ninnie's this? Thou ſcvrvy patch: […]
"Nob, you woolly-pated ninny!" [Butterbur] cried. "Can't you give old friends their names?
Ninny — that soft, smiling, self-effacing, apologetic fellow, the type who is terribly sorry when you happen to step on his foot, the kind you can borrow money from in the certainty he will never demand you repay it.
Now, on the pool deck, the boys tussle and roughhouse with the zeal of Labrador puppies, slugging each other lovingly in the shoulders and then retreating with giggles like ninnies.
Use ninny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ninny means (informal) A silly or foolish person..
Common synonyms include simpleton, dummkopf, addle-brain, addlehead.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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?
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