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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni

Noun

ninny (plural ninnies)

1. (informal) A silly or foolish person.

   Synonym: dummkopf

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[2]:

     Caliban: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch! […]

   • 1962, John D. MacDonald

     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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idiot

Related terms

• nincompoop
• ninnyish
• ninnyism
• ninnyhammer

Translations

English

Etymology

From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Vulgar Latin christi?nus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??t?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?i?t?n/, /?k??t?n/
• Homophone: Cretan (one pronunciation)

Noun

cretin (plural cretins)

1. (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]
2. (by extension, derogatory) An idiot.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idiot

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Cretinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Cretinism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• centri-, cinter, citren, crinet

Romanian

Etymology

From French crétin

Noun

cretin m (plural cretini)

1. idiot

Declension