ninny

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Robb weds Talisa instead of marrying one of Walder Frey’s daughters to forge the agreed military alliance, because Robb is the Great Ninny of Westeros and the High Seas.

From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2019

In “The Ninny and Her Prince Charming,” a woman waits her whole life for love, only to drop dead on her 94th birthday after her prince finally arrives.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

She had not known till then that the door was locked, and if Ninny had been quiet she would probably have kept fumbling away till she opened it.

From Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land And Other Stories by Farman, Sophie May

All this while Ivan the Ninny went walking off into the island.

From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Mitrokhin, Dmitri

That is the story about salt, and how it made a rich man of Ivan the Ninny, and besides, gave him the prettiest wife in the world, and she a Tzar's daughter.

From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Mitrokhin, Dmitri