What's the difference between binny and ninny?

Binny


Definition:

  • (n.) A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Binnie has said that even when he was young, he looked like a middle-aged woman; she’d pretend to be his niece.
  • (2) Although Mr Binnie did not take passengers, he took ballast to reproduce the weight of two passengers.
  • (3) "Let me say I thank God that I live in a country where this is possible," the pilot, Brian Binnie, said shortly after landing.
  • (4) He was also involved with an avant-garde group, the Neo-Naturists (started by his then girlfriend, Jennifer Binnie ), who would paint their bodies and exhibit themselves at nightclubs and galleries.

Ninny


Definition:

  • (n.) A fool; a simpleton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) October 13, 2016 Who: Ninni Laaksonen When the allegations became public: 27 October 2016 When the incident allegedly took place: 2006 What allegedly happened: Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland in the Miss Universe competition, said Trump groped her during a photoshoot for an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.
  • (2) In his review, Smith lambasts Lee herself as a "ninny" and claims that "in 1952 Ireland , both mother and child's life would have been utterly ruined by an out-of-wedlock birth and that the nuns are actually giving both a chance at a fresh start that both indeed, in real life, enjoyed."
  • (3) Heath was a buffoonish ninny, and Churchill a "war criminal, mass murderer and persecutor of PG Wodehouse".
  • (4) As skinny as a teenager, sporting an afro and almost unnecessarily handsome at 57 years old, Prince looks flatly amazing, exuding ineffable cool and panache while wearing clothes that would make anyone else look like a ninny is just one among his panoply of talents.
  • (5) It's what marks them out from a ninny with too many tattoos playing a CD.
  • (6) Ninni warns Lune that someone in the force wants her dead, but before she learns who it is, the ink on her portable fax machine runs out.
  • (7) If the nation's legislators can't cut a deal soon – they have a day or two; just exactly how long is a matter for debate – then we get to find out if Warren Buffett was just being a hysterical ninny when he compared default to "a nuclear bomb".

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