nimini-pimini

nimini-pimini

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