Meaning of ninnyhammer | Babel Free

Definitions

A foolish person; a simpleton.

Examples

“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.'”

“'Well, if I don't deserve to be hung on the end of one as a warning to numbskulls! You're nowt but a ninnyhammer, Sam Gamgee: that's what the Gaffer said to me often enough, it being a word of his. Rope!'”

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