ninny

Can we laugh at Baryshnikov’s infatuated ninny with her bottom row of rotting orange teeth?

Jane Austen wrote takedowns of this kind of ninny two centuries ago — how fun to see Pike update her twit to the post-Y2K era.

“No! Oh, you pack of ninnies! Great heroes! I knew I should have gone with you from the beginning.”

But she flubbed the attempt, using a dated, offensive term: “Don’t mean to use an inappropriate word, but pica ninny came to mind,” Ms. Wintour wrote.

You know that feeling of dread you get during musicals, where the plot screeches to a halt so that some ninny can sing about their feelings?