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Definition of niminy-piminy in English: niminy-piminyadjective ˌnɪmɪnɪˈpɪmɪniˌnɪməniˈpɪməni Affectedly prim or refined. she had a niminy-piminy ladylike air Example sentencesExamples - And so it has gone on, leaving tea to be the preserve of a niminy-piminy minority of the American upper-crust, who don't appear to know how to make it properly either.
- Who can ever forget Jo in Little Women, who was really Louisa, the girl who, when reproved for whistling by Amy, the art-loving sister, says: ‘I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!’
- Stevens’ cocktail is a little different, but he's similarly niminy-piminy.
- And must the disinherited knight, whose blood has been warmed in the company of the tender and beautiful Rebecca, sit down contented for life by the side of such a frigid piece of propriety as that icy, faultless, prim, niminy-piminy Rowena?
- No longer is Art Theft a refined craft of niminy-piminy alarm evasion, but more and more a matter of going in with all the guns blazing.
Synonyms weak, weak-willed, weak-kneed, feeble, spiritless, soft, ineffectual, inadequate, irresolute, indecisive
Origin Late 18th century: fanciful coinage; compare with namby-pamby. Definition of niminy-piminy in US English: niminy-piminyadjectiveˌnɪməniˈpɪməniˌnimənēˈpimənē Affectedly prim or refined. she had a niminy-piminy ladylike air Example sentencesExamples - Stevens’ cocktail is a little different, but he's similarly niminy-piminy.
- And must the disinherited knight, whose blood has been warmed in the company of the tender and beautiful Rebecca, sit down contented for life by the side of such a frigid piece of propriety as that icy, faultless, prim, niminy-piminy Rowena?
- And so it has gone on, leaving tea to be the preserve of a niminy-piminy minority of the American upper-crust, who don't appear to know how to make it properly either.
- Who can ever forget Jo in Little Women, who was really Louisa, the girl who, when reproved for whistling by Amy, the art-loving sister, says: ‘I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!’
- No longer is Art Theft a refined craft of niminy-piminy alarm evasion, but more and more a matter of going in with all the guns blazing.
Synonyms weak, weak-willed, weak-kneed, feeble, spiritless, soft, ineffectual, inadequate, irresolute, indecisive
Origin Late 18th century: fanciful coinage; compare with namby-pamby. |