10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NINNYISH»
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ninnyish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ninnyish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Among those who saw him heeling out of the line, one "opinion would have
prevailed; and had 'he been previously heard muttering 'snlky execrations, or
ninnyish inuen'does, against the King, even a few supernumerary calcations
would ...
... she is unbecomingly dressed about the head. This much-abused article before
us has indeed a ninnyish air, yet it is translatable into very good sense ; and had
Campbell sent it to us, we would have stripped it of its twaddle, corrected the ...
John Scott, John Taylor, 1825
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A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language. - London, Bohn 1845
Sgsg. Split, crack ed; filtered, strained; winnowed; become lean or emaciated.
SGAIFEAN, dus, um, s. m. А ninny, a dwarf. term of contempt. SGAIFEANACH, „
псих, adj. (Sgaifean,) Dwariish, ninnyish. SGAIFEANACHD, s. f. ind. (
Sgaifeanach ...
Norman Macleod, Daniel Dewar, 1845
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Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum: a Dictionary of the Gaelic ...
'of cente'mpt: nanus, homo nihili, vox contumeliosa. C. S. Soarsaanacn, -arcna,
adj. (Sgaifean), Like a dwarf, or ninny, ninnyish: nano similis, futilis. C. S.
Soarrannacnn, s.jI ind. (Sgaifeanach), Ninnyism, futility, trifling talk: futilitas, nani
hominis ...
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Cry me a river: Big issues require big knickers!
... didn't feel ninnyish about praying anymore and went straight to The Big Guy
asking him to open up the dance floor, so it could swallow me whole. 'Please God
, an earthquake, anything ...' 'Did ah someone ah say Bee Gees ah? I see some ...
... or ate the whole thing, leaving behind only the skin, which was later snapped
up by a pageboy, for it tickled him to act a little ninnyish himself, and the sun
shone into the courtyard, and often it was as still as beneath the sea, as though
all the ...
7
An Unexpected Engagement
Sara Reinke. tiles," called a voice from somewhere outside and above them.
Kenley laughed, walking backward, and rather heedlessly, down the front steps
of his house, craning his head back. "Good! You are home again. Shuck that
ninnyish ...
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Memoirs of Louis the eighteenth, written by himself [or ...
... however, much to be done," said M. de Maurepas, shrugging and pinkering
through his eyes, according to his habit when he had any thing important to talk
about ; a habit, by the way, which imparted to the worthy minister a very ninnyish
air, ...
Etienne Léon de La Mothe-Langon (baron .́), 1832
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Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French
E A Lovatt Esq, R. J. H 'erail, E. A. Lovatt. had my lot!—It's the kind of experience I
don't want to have again! sortir v. trans. reflex. S'en sortir: To 'get oneself out of a
tight spot', to escape froma difficult situation. sossot adj. (of person): 'Ninnyish' ...
E A Lovatt Esq, R. J. H 'erail, E. A. Lovatt, 2005
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Dutiful Correspondent: Philosophical Essays on Thomas Jefferson
Philosophical Essays on Thomas Jefferson Mark Holowchak. retirement. Each
person is perpetually exposed to want and accident and “[n]obody will care for
him who cares for nobody.” Retirement is ninnyish. In chimes Jefferson's
optimism.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NINNYISH»
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Trivialising Wimbledon not doing BBC any favours
Number one, nobody at the BBC watched W1A, the BBC-aired spoof about ninnyish focus groups and berkish think-tanks within the BBC. «Scotsman, Jul 15»
Dan Jones: Giants like Rafa Nadal and Tiger Woods must get used …
... sportsmen, Tenerife or kerbs. The ninnyish disapproval-confection concerning what athletes get up to on their holidays really has to stop. «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
Dan Jones: 'Hippy crack' outrage over Liverpool's Raheem Sterling …
In fact, I am becoming increasingly convinced that the ninnyish state of modern public morality is entirely the product of the age of iPhone. «Evening Standard, Apr 15»
Frank Lampard's refusal to celebrate Manchester City goal against …
If the FA was willing to legislate against over-celebrating, as with the ninnyish mandatory yellow card for removing a shirt, it can and must do so ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
Good news, bad news
Oliver will take heat for speaking out in the middle of Ontario's election campaign, but let's dispense with the ninnyish idea that complex, ... «Macleans.ca, Jun 14»
Genre-Bending Novel Uses Body Swap As A Metaphor For Reading
If you look at Homer, if you look at the Iliad and the Odyssey, the immortals in that seem ninnyish by comparison with the humans. There are no ... «NPR, Feb 14»
Roll up for the ritual pantomine of politicians bashing the BBC
One so admires his courageous refusal to seek refuge in ninnyish pedantry that I can hardly be so pedantic myself as to mention that the OED ... «The Independent, Oct 13»
Big School, BBC One
... Kent who has died of an allergy while eating Nutella on a school trip across the Channel (below, David Walliams as the ninnyish Mr Church). «The Arts Desk, Aug 13»
Stimulating conversation
I suppose, in our ninnyish modern world hamstrung by spineless considerations of liability, I should provide a disclaimer here, and say that this ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 09»
Who's to blame for George Tiller's murder?
President Barack Obama's official response lacked the gratuitous cruelty of Operation Rescue's, but exemplified the most ninnyish tendencies of liberalism. «National Post, Jun 09»
