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Ninny vs Grandmother - What's the difference?

ninny | grandmother |

As nouns the difference between ninny and grandmother

is that ninny is a silly or foolish person while grandmother is a mother of someone's parent.

ninny

English

Noun

(ninnies)
  • a silly or foolish person
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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)

    • Related terms

    * nincompoop * ninnyish * ninnyism * picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny

    grandmother

    English

    (wikipedia grandmother)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mother of someone's parent.
  • A female ancestor or progenitor.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, mother of someone's parent) baba (loanword from Eastern Europe), gammy, gram, gramma, gran, grandma, grandmom, granny, eldmother/eldermother, mimi, nan (British slang), nanna, nanny, Mamaw

    Antonyms

    * (with regard to gender) grandfather * (with regard to ancestry) granddaughter, grandson, grandchild

    Hyponyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Hypernyms

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    Derived terms

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    Related terms

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