ninny

Before forty there is yet a chance that the budding ninny may desert, and degenerate into a prig, a Philistine, or a physician.

And you would spill blood sooner than your betters should know it—ye ninny-cumpoops!

You ninny, do you suppose it was by accident that Elsin Grey became our guest?

But I went to the girl herself, as you would have done if you hadn't been such a ninny; but you're always a ninny.

He's not such a ninny-headed feller neither as you seem to take him for, Mr. Sedley.