ninny

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

The people who are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would have you believe that you are a ninny because you might wish for such a thing.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

Siegfried can seem a passive ninny in the traditional “Swan Lake”; here he’s even more passive and delusional.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2015

Granted, not everyone has sympathy for a ninny, or any robot, for that matter.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2013

And would he just stand here like a jittery ninny or would he pull himself together and be reasonable?

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers