How To Use Ninny In A Sentence
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While a youth, he established an association with the Hoffman music company in Leavenworth, directed church choirs, sang with a quartette, and organized a ‘Pickaninny Band.’
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Looks like that grinning ninny from the penis pill commercials.
Boing Boing
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If, said they, he was ever lucky enough to snap up a plump piccaninny — girl preferred — he would cut her to pieces with a shell-knife and use her for bait.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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That is certainly true of the "picaninny" songs of Nora Bates sung in
Undefined
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Another "ninny" played to-night, namely GIANNINNI, all right vocally, but not much dramatically.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892
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It's just that few choose to, because it's exhausting and demoralising permanently to present oneself as a grinning ninny.
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Dismembered frog purses + Nazi & picaninny memorabilia.
Regretsy – JP. Toad’s
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Is this really the moment for the grinning ninny to inflict his woeful attempts at some classic music moments upon the listening public?
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They declared that while they had slept a piccaninny
My Tropic Isle
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I'm opting for the ninny option but I'm not sure Bill is so convinced.
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First, regulators need to change their ninnyish attitudes.
CJR
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I know it must seem like I'm a ninny about Philip Levine, but this was on the Writer's Almanac on my birthday and I loved it so much.
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There was a little wilga as black and crinkled as a pickaninny’s mop, and the remains of a great stump standing close to the charred boundary.
The Thorn Birds
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Before the NINNY becomes immovably entrenched, the real history of the Iraqi campaign needs to be told.
Iraq
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Like all single career women, Bridget is a slobbering alcoholic, a superficial ninny posing as a competent professional and intellectual.
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All scornfully out-voted him, and to this day the blacks assert that “a piccaninny debil-debil” so closely resembles a flying-fox that none but a black boy can tell the difference.
My Tropic Isle
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Mr. Purvis looked muzzily at the dumpy madonna with the ninnyish smile.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Shaw only called for a bit of shattered glass to fall through the conservatory of John Tarleton, the underwear magnate whose lively daughter, Hypatia, is slated to marry a prancing ninny named Bentley Summerhays.
George Bernard Shaw's 'Misalliance' misses the mark at Olney Theatre Center
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I really am not such a ninnyhammer as I seem to be.
An Unacceptable Offer
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And besides, she's not some ninnyhammer without a lick of sense.
Tender Rebel
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‘If you can think of any way we could have both used the rope and yet brought it down with us, then you can pass on to me ninnyhammer, or any other name your Gaffer gave you,’ said Frodo.
The Lord of the Rings
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But now I find I was a gull, a wittol, a woodcock, a mere ninny, a dolt-head,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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A baby pacifier, used to be called a pacifier now its called: A binky, a beebee, a wubby, a nummy, a num-num, and a ninny among countless other names
ZUG.com > ZUG Live
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Until then it seemed best to let him think she was just what he thought she was now: a persnickity little ninnyhammer who'd just happened to stumble into the middle of it all.
Moonheart
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Why are the conservative defending this cotton headed ninny muggins?
Ethics complaints still dog Palin
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A tipsy, disorderly, vindictive debil-debil it was, that made the boldest piccaninny shriek with dismay.
My Tropic Isle
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No one makes you feel more like the nugatory little ninny that you are than a disciple of Concordia women's studies, class of '86.
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Leaving aside the "ninny" part, the analysis "it's a religion" means, among other things:
Ellis Weiner: The Fraudacity of Hope: Bush's Faith-Based Triumph
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A frankly dumpy madonna in a nondescript landscape simpered at the viewer with a look you could only describe as ninnyish.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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When your BFF calls you a cotton headed ninny muggins on FB, resist the urge to smack back. Step away from your mobile device and take 5 deep breaths.
Tara Stiles: Zen And The Art Of Social Networking
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CBS canceled The Reagans, a four-hour mini-series, after conservative activists and pundits said it made Ronald Reagan out to be a ninny and a bigot.
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There is also the possibility of a kenotic or self-limiting God, much in fashion these days with the “process theology” school in liberal Christianity, which hails Alfred North Whitehead as a founding father not exactly an irrational ninnyhammer, by the way.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Perimeter of Ignorance - The Panda's Thumb
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Sam proved that he isn't some Negro picaninny boy, he is his own man!
Archive 2005-02-01
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A pile of newspapers and letters for the master of the house; the Newcome Sentinel, old county paper, moderate conservative, in which our worthy townsman and member is praised, his benefactions are recorded, and his speeches given at full length; the Newcome Independent, in which our precious member is weekly described as a ninny, and informed almost every Thursday morning that he is a bloated aristocrat, as he munches his dry toast.
The Newcomes
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The African picaninny has just as much curiosity as his American brother and in ten minutes the whole juvenile population was assembled around us.
An African Adventure
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When, of course, one is the product of a yammering ninnyhammer, while the other is the product of actual scientific effort.
Breast beginnings - The Panda's Thumb
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You silly, awkward, ill-bred country sow," quoth one, "have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus that has saved that clod-pated numskulled ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?
History of John Bull
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Eugenia at her marriage; and you know as well as I do what a ninny he is for his pains; for what a poor little dowdy thing will she look, dizened out in jewels and laces? '
Camilla
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Acting like a hysterical ninny wasn't going to make my day get any better.
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But I won't be left doddering here like some incapable ninny.
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But of course he would have been attracted to that ninnyhammer of a cousin of hers under any circumstances, and through her he would have met Jane anyway.
An Unacceptable Offer
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And plenty fella white marster make 'm big laugh along me, say Binu Charley allee same pickaninny -- my word, they speak along me allee same pickaninny.
Chapter 23
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Further, only a ninny can suppose that the intellectual and mystical are opposites (tell it to St. Thomas).
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Encumbered with the "piccaninny," and wearied with the long ceaseless struggle through the sand, Colin lingered behind his companions.
The Boy Slaves
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These, of all sizes, from the "piccaninny" to the "good-sized chunk of
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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If you want to survive, you shivering ninny, you might as well shoot off your big toe.
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Nate, when you said "picaninny" in referring to what Sam Malone is not, I was sure you were wrong because I thought a picaninny was named such as a consequence of picking cotton.
Ghizzy Attacks Malone, Again
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I was wont to point out that since the sea presented an impassable barrier, the sand spit, drawn out to a fine point, was just the spot where a piccaninny might be easily rounded up, if it were detected in a preoccupied mood.
My Tropic Isle
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By the way, this is the first time I've heard "ninny" used in a sentence by an adult in about 70 years.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa: Deja Ew!
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I was just thinking, if he did mean those statements as they sound, what a fatuous ninnyhammer that would make him!
Speaking as one old fart to another
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Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour.
Harry's Place
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Oh Richard Whittington you have made me laugh, never in my life have I been called a ninny!
The Guardian World News
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Nobody, unless he's an arrogant ninny, would ever say ‘I am an intellectual.’
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Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or a fat woman in a hoop, and of a most doubtful virtue, who leers at you as
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons.
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Charity only could have induced him to take the picaninny, in fact, for he was but
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
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John remembered, Dr. Johnson had lived, and he tried to imagine the scene that took place on the night of misery when Oliver Goldsmith went to the Doctor and wept over the failure of _The Good Natured Man_, and was called a ninny for his pains.
The Foolish Lovers
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Apparently, both spellings picaninny and pickininny are correct.
Ghizzy Attacks Malone, Again
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From the appearance of the camps, and the age of the islander who took part in the various searches, and who was ready to admit that though pearl-shell hooks were used when he was a piccaninny he had never seen one made, I judge the age of these relics of a prehistoric art to be between thirty and forty years.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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_Durak_, -- a "ninny" or "gowk" -- is sent to take care of the children of
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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As they betrayed Ashcroft, why does this ninnyhammer think they will not betray him?
Ashcroft's Principles Meets Gonzales Pimp-ciples
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QUASHEE. (with great feeling) Massa! you have been kind massa to me; and Missee Rosa been kind missee to wife and pickaninny here, and I now show you black man's heart beat warm as white.
Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
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“Stop being such an old ninnyhammer,” chided Aunt Agatha, giving Hilda a sharp elbow.
Chasing a Rogue
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Taking pictures of you and all your fancy clothes, parties, and people won't make you happy. Well, it might for the moment but it won't last. Your friends like you because of who you are, not what you have. If they don't they aren't good friends anyway. Plus it makes you look like a cotton headed ninny muggins.
Tara Stiles: Zen And The Art Of Social Networking
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The descriptive definitions are well done (though the entries be rare), and if you are searching for another way to refer to the people whom you have traditionally characterized as gormless ninnyhammers and attocerebral twits, perhaps this book is the solution.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
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To every smarty-pants who ever had to stifle her chuckles when overhearing some ninny explain that the reason the sky is blue is because it's reflecting the colour of the ocean, welcome home.
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If you want to survive, you shivering ninny, you might as well shoot off your big toe.
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The piccaninny of the remote past chuckled gleefully as the jerked leaf returned to it.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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George ignored the piccaninny, but took the pigling to his heart, ever and anon assuring the community that very soon it would be fat and tender.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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The next house had a collection of pickaninny dolls on shelves running the length of the living room, and a plump orange cat that blinked and mewed inquisitively as he passed.