nimini-pimini

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English

Adjective

nimini-pimini (comparative more nimini-pimini, superlative most nimini-pimini)

  1. 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

nimini-pimini (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of niminy-piminy