What's the difference between ninny and nonny?

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".

Nonny


Definition:

  • (n.) A silly fellow; a ninny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
  • (2) At the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the researcher Nonny de la Pena has developed a project named Immersive Journalism which uses virtual reality to place viewers into the environment of contemporary news stories.

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