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niminy-piminy
[ nim-uh-nee-pim-uh-nee ]
adjective
- affectedly delicate or refined; mincing; effeminate:
A niminy-piminy shyness makes frankness impossible.
niminy-piminy
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adjective
- excessively refined; prim
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of niminy-piminy1
1795–1805; rhyming compound; namby-pamby
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of niminy-piminy1
C19: imitative of a prim affected enunciation
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Example Sentences
You would have sung to a very different tune if I had whistled to you before this niminy-piminy parson showed his face here!
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Powerful bard, Gray! but a niminy-piminy creature, afraid of a petticoat and a bottle—not a man, sir, not a man!
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She had given up Beethoven and all the men of might, and had cultivated the niminy-piminy school, which is to music as sunflowers and blue china are to art.
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Inside were many fine pictures, not in the niminy-piminy manner, but strong, full-coloured, and just.
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