Thursday, December 15, 2005

Word of the Day: Ninnyhammer

Word of the Day

ninnyhammer (n)

A fool, simpleton or silly person

"You silly, awkward, illbred, country sow...have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clodpated numskull'd ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?"
--Jonathan Swift, "The History of John Bull"

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