ninnyhammer

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I pursued the sad inquiry: 'A noodle, a pigwidgeon, a ninnyhammer, a bubble on the wave, a leaf in the wind, Madame!'

From More Trivia by Smith, Logan Pearsall

"Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?"—ARBUTHNOT: ib., w.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

You needn't attempt to argue with me, because you are a ninnyhammer, and I am a second Nestor.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

That will do, Direxia; you mean well, but you are a ninnyhammer.

From Mrs. Tree by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

I don't care the devil had the M'Mahons; but I am bound to this ninnyhammer of a landlord, who has got me promoted, and who promises, besides, to get an appointment for you.

From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William