Ninny vs Chump - What's the difference?
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a silly or foolish person
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''Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? }}* "Ninny — that soft, smiling, self-effacing, apologetic fellow, the type who is terribly sorry when you happen to step on his foot, the kind you can borrow money from in the certainty he will never demand you repay it." — (1962)
(colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 5
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
* Dickens
Ninny is a related term of chump.
As nouns the difference between ninny and chump
is that ninny is a silly or foolish person while chump is (colloquial|pejorative) an incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.ninny
English
Noun
(ninnies)citation, page=three of sheet G3 , passage=Byd.'' ...a good cheeke, an inticing eye, a smooth skinne, a well shapt leg, a faire hand, you cannot bring a wench into a fooles parradize for you?
''Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? }}
chump
English
Noun
(en noun)- That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
- It shouldn't be hard to put one over on ''that'' chump .
citation, page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
- Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump -end of something.