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)

(slang, Australia, New Zealand) An idiot.

* 1983 , Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers , Penguin 2009, p. 126:

*:‘In there, you nong ,’ Max said, pointing out a pink-brick home with a 1950s skillion roof.

* 2008 , Michael Panckridge, Hat Trick! Toby Jones, Books 1-3 , 2010, unnumbered page,

‘You guys are such nongs ! Why would you want to face up to Shoaib Akhtar when you could win a World Cup against the young blond Aussie star at the home of cricket?’

* 2010 , John Dale (editor), Best on Ground: Great Writers on the Greatest Game , unnumbered page,

and spend every second Saturday defiant and one-eyed among the opposition nongs at the Barkly Street end.

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