Ninny vs Jackass - What's the difference?
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a silly or foolish person
* {{quote-book
, year=1607
, author=John Marston
, title=What you will
, chapter=Act 5, Scene 1
''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)
A male donkey.
A foolish or stupid person.
An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
(poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity
(rare) To behave very obnoxiously.
Ninny is a related term of jackass.
As nouns the difference between ninny and jackass
is that ninny is a silly or foolish person while jackass is a male donkey.As a proper noun jackass is
(poker slang) a jack and an ace as a starting hand in texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.As a verb jackass is
(rare) to behave very obnoxiously.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? }}
