Adjective : A niminy-piminy shyness makes frankness impossible. From Dictionary.com.
I don't think we need have any niminy-piminy fancies against that. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
And, in case you think I am sounding too niminy-piminy here, a third tucking into his 'Double Bubble, two slice and a cup a tea please love' while enjoying the special delights of The Sun. From Wordnik.com. [A man and his newspaper are never parted] Reference
These fashion-plates of fifty years ago are designed by very different hands from those which produce our niminy-piminy looking things, -- by artists plainly; and your peasant-girl was seized upon by some errant knight of palette and brush, and painted for her beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
You're a brave lass for all your niminy-piminy lingo. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
So we'll all have to walk just niminy-piminy till then. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Travels] Reference
Inside were many fine pictures, not in the niminy-piminy manner, but strong, full-coloured, and just. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Rome] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf] Reference
'Humph!' said Malevola, 'your precious daughter will have beauty and grace and all the rest of the tuppenny halfpenny rubbish those niminy-piminy minxes have given her. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic World] Reference
The girl, poor thing, was in her normal state, a niminy-piminy, affected milliner, and nothing more, only seeming very much overcome by being in company with so many fine people. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Wheer would th 'owd country be if 'twere left to pulin' booky clerks what thinks they're gemmen, an 'what weds niminy-piminy shop gels, an' breeds nowt but ricketty babes fit for workus 'burial!. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
If your niminy-piminy girls could see them run, they would stop tilting through the streets, and learn that the true Grecian Bend is the line of beauty always found in straight shoulders, well-opened chest, and an upright figure, firmly planted on active feet. '. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag] Reference
"I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!". From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
You pinheaded, pretentious, pompous, egotistical, niminy-piminy -- ". From Wordnik.com. [By Advice of Counsel] Reference
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