英语词汇“ninny-hammer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	ninny-hammer
释义	ˈninny-ˌhammer Also 6–7 nini-, 7 ninni-. [app. f. ninny¹, but the force of the second element is not clear.] A simpleton. 1592Nashe Four Lett. Confut. 60 Whoreson Ninihammer, that wilt assault a man and haue no stronger weapons.1600Hospit. Incurable Fooles A 3 b, Shallow-pates and ninnie-hammers.1622Rowlands Good Newes & B. 38, I might haue beene a scholler, learn'd my Grammar, But I haue lost all like a Ninnie-hammer.1673S'too him Bayes 3 A man ought not to talk like a ninny-hammer.1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. xii, That Clod-pated, Numskull'd Ninny-hammer of yours.1767Sterne Tr. Shandy IX. xxv, Numskulls, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninny-hammers,..and other unsavoury appellations.1812Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. 198, I will be..anythng now, to oppose these stupid, tasteless, ninny-hammers.1853Blackw. Mag. LXXIII. 748 The predominant feature of a ninny-hammer is the enormous development of his self-conceit. So † ˈninny-whoop. Obs. rare^—1. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxii, They think to have to do with a ninnie-whoop to feed you thus with cakes.
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