Noun

(ninnies)

a silly or foolish person

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, year=1607 , author=John Marston , title=What you will , chapter=Act 5, Scene 1 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? }}

* "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)

Noun

(en noun)

A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla , native to Australia.

* 2005 , David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology , page 175,

The Galah' has benefited from changes in the environment brought about by human activities (Rowley, 1990; Saunders and Ingram, 1995; Forshaw, 2002). The ' Galah ?s diet is predominantly seeds, especially those from cereal crops and agricultural weeds.

(Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.

That galah nearly drove me off the road.

* 1991 , , River of the Sun , unnumbered page,

‘Don?t just stand there, you great galah , lend a hand here!’ Billy Kemp shoved Edmund towards the longboat. ‘Get it free. The lads are bringing up the casks.’

* 1999 , , Solomon's Song , unnumbered page,

‘But, Sergeant, I reckon a man would look a proper galah falling about with an empty rifle, going click, click, click, “bang you?re dead” when he wasn?t doing rifle drill on parade, like when it?s not official, know what I mean?’ one of the infantrymen volunteers.

* 2006 , John Chalmers, The Professional Guest , page 13,

‘Then you will strut around like a great galah tryin? to impress the sheilas about what a fuckin? big iron ore miner you are.’