niminy-piminy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of niminy-piminy
1795–1805; rhyming compound; cf. namby-pamby
Example Sentences
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You would have sung to a very different tune if I had whistled to you before this niminy-piminy parson showed his face here!
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
She had given up Beethoven and all the men of might, and had cultivated the niminy-piminy school, which is to music as sunflowers and blue china are to art.
From The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
So we’ll all have to walk just niminy-piminy till then.
From Dorothy's Travels by S. Schneider
She'll do the work of a half dozen niminy-piminy dolls like Leighton.
From Miss Pat at School by Pemberton Ginther
Powerful bard, Gray! but a niminy-piminy creature, afraid of a petticoat and a bottle—not a man, sir, not a man!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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