nimini-pimini
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nimini-pimini (comparative more nimini-pimini, superlative most nimini-pimini)
- Alternative form of niminy-piminy
- 1786, John Burgoyne, The Heiress:
- You have only, when before your glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini — the lips cannot fail of taking their plie.
- 1853, Dinah Craik, Agatha's Husband:
- Then the vowels -- the three broad rich a's -- which no one can pronounce with nimini-pimini closed lips -- how thoroughly they answered to her character!
- 1861, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Gorilla Hunters:
- O Tom, what a nimini-pimini muff you are, to be sure!
Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of niminy-piminy