Ninny
noun
A person who is foolish and lacks common sense or intelligence.
Don't be such a ninny, you should look both ways before crossing the street.
Often appears as...
- don't be a ninny
- you're a ninny
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A person who is foolish and lacks common sense or intelligence.
Don't be such a ninny, you should look both ways before crossing the street.
Often appears as...
- don't be a ninny
- you're a ninny
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
The term 'ninny' is casual and might be offensive in formal situations.
My friends laughed when I called myself a ninny for forgetting my keys.
Pro Tip 2/3Possible Offense
'Ninny' can be taken as an insult; use it carefully to avoid hurting others.
I jokingly called my brother a ninny, but he didn't find it funny.
Pro Tip 3/3Self-Deprecation
Sometimes used humorously about oneself to show a small mistake or foolishness.
I'm such a ninny, I mixed up the meeting dates!
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
The term 'ninny' is casual and might be offensive in formal situations.
My friends laughed when I called myself a ninny for forgetting my keys.
Pro Tip 2/3Possible Offense
'Ninny' can be taken as an insult; use it carefully to avoid hurting others.
I jokingly called my brother a ninny, but he didn't find it funny.
Pro Tip 3/3Self-Deprecation
Sometimes used humorously about oneself to show a small mistake or foolishness.
I'm such a ninny, I mixed up the meeting dates!
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
The term 'ninny' is casual and might be offensive in formal situations.
My friends laughed when I called myself a ninny for forgetting my keys.
Pro Tip 2/3Possible Offense
'Ninny' can be taken as an insult; use it carefully to avoid hurting others.
I jokingly called my brother a ninny, but he didn't find it funny.
Pro Tip 3/3Self-Deprecation
Sometimes used humorously about oneself to show a small mistake or foolishness.
I'm such a ninny, I mixed up the meeting dates!
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Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Quote examples
Faye Dunaway
American Actress
When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.
Quote examples
Maya Angelou
American Poet
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Quote examples
Faye Dunaway
American Actress
When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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