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ninnyhammer

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Definitions

  1. A foolish person; a simpleton.

Word origin

Apparently from ninny (although attested slightly later) + -hammer, of unknown origin; perhaps compare earlier hammer-headed.

Used in a sentence

  • 1608, A Yorkshire Tragedy, dubiously claimed to be by William Shakespeare Why, the more fool she; aye, the more ninny hammer she.
  • "You silly, awkward, ill-bred country sow," quoth one, "have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus that has saved that clod-pated numskulled ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?
  • 'Silly noodle!—foolish simpleton!—bewildered ninnyhammer! He had brains in his head once.'

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