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ˈniminy-ˈpiminy, a.
Also nimeny pimeny, nimini pimini.
[Imitative of a mincing utterance. Cf. miminy-piminy.]
Mincing, affected, trifling, lacking in force or spirit.
1786J. Burgoyne Heiress iii. ii. 55 Lady Emily... You have only, when before your glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-primini. Miss Alscrip. Nimini-pimini-imini, mimini—oh, it's delightfully enfantine. 1786G. White Let. 25 Mar. in R. Holt-White Life & Lett. G. White (1901) II. 154, I hope you practice every day at your Glass; and that you are by this time perfect mistress of ‘Nimini pimini’. 1801Monthly Rev. XXXV. 324 With..a smirking countenance, and ‘nimeny pimeny’ lisp. 1822L. Hunt Indicator No. 23 I. 178 To see her proud, affected, niminy-piminy face in. 1830J. Jekyll Corr. (1894) 221 She..is an exquisite, her husband a nimini pimini gentleman. 1840Thackeray Pict. Rhapsody Wks. 1900 XIII. 345 But was there ever such a niminy-piminy subject treated in such a niminy-piminy way? a1894Stevenson St. Ives xxv. 190 A niminy-piminy creature, afraid of a petticoat and a bottle.
Hence ˈniminy-ˈpimininess; ˈniminy-ˈpiminyism.
1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 833 Such a pitiful piece of niminy-piminyism. 1884W. C. Hazlitt Offspring Th. 56 There was no Niminy-pimininess about Johnson... He always said what he thought. |