What's the difference between finny and ninny?

Finny


Definition:

  • (a.) Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
  • (a.) Abounding in fishes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The referee, Stephen Finnie, was unimpressed and the game limped on.
  • (2) The England and Everton Ladies goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis has told the BBC that Scudamore's emails were an "insult to all women" and said she would like to see him sanctioned.
  • (3) "Lambeth parks and green spaces are vital to people's health and wellbeing," says one resident, Stefan Finnis.
  • (4) The Celtic midfielder Nir Bitton was sent off by the referee, Stephen Finnie, in the 67th minute for picking up two yellow cards and while that seemed to spur on Ronny Deila’s side, it looked like the Jags would take a point amid growing frustration from the home support.
  • (5) The recent isolation and identification of alpha-N-acetyl forms of the C-Fragment of lipotropin (beta-endorphin, residues 61-91) and the C'-Fragment (residues 61-87) [Smyth, D.G., Massey, D.E., Zakarian, S. & Finnie, M. (1979) Nature (London) 279, 252-254] has led to a study of their distribution in the pituitary and brain of the rat.
  • (6) John Finnie said: “Expansion of hugely polluting aviation can only be a disaster for the climate, not to mention the impact on local communities.
  • (7) (Bradbury, A. F., Finnie, M. D. A., and Smyth, D. G. (1982) Nature 298, 686-688).
  • (8) The Everton women's goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis said the emails were an "insult to all women" and that Scudamore should be sanctioned, while the former England captain Casey Stoney said his position was now "difficult".

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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