Ninny-pinny

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Silly, ridiculous, ninnyish. dialectal

    "But the Country's confidence in the Government had to be maintained at all costs; hence the comical, side-glance, slantingdicular, ninny-pinny way in which the "King's Book," for the most part, is drawn up."

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"But the Country's confidence in the Government had to be maintained at all costs; hence the comical, side-glance, slantingdicular, ninny-pinny way in which the "King's Book," for the most part, is drawn up."

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