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Nonna vs Nonny - What's the difference?

nonna | nonny |

As nouns the difference between nonna and nonny

is that nonna is (dialectal) grandmother while nonny is (obsolete) a fool.

As an interjection nonny is

.

nonna

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialectal) grandmother
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 29, author=Alex Witchel, title=Borscht: What Would Nana Say?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas , or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy. }} ----

    nonny

    English

    Noun

    (nonnies)
  • (obsolete) A fool.

    • Interjection

    (en-intj)
  • * 1599 ,
  • *:Then sigh not so,
  • *:But let them go,
  • *:And be you blithe and bonny,
  • *:Converting all your sounds of woe
  • *:Into Hey nonny', ' nonny .