Ninny vs Tinny - What's the difference?
ninny | tinny |
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)
Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
:The object had a tinny appearance.
Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal.
:The shop was filled with tinny tourist geegaws.
Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
:The piano was not simply out of tune, but had become downright tinny .
As a noun ninny
is a silly or foolish person.As an adjective tinny is
of or pertaining to or resembling tin.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? }}