ninnyhammer
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ninnyhammer (plural ninnyhammers)
- a foolish person; a simpleton
- 1608, A Yorkshire Tragedy, dubiously claimed to be by William Shakespeare
- Why, the more fool she; aye, the more ninny hammer she.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot John Bull
- "You silly, awkward, ill-bred country sow," quoth one, "have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus that has saved that clod-pated numskulled ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?
- 1608, A Yorkshire Tragedy, dubiously claimed to be by William Shakespeare
