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Niminy-piminy

adjective
1.
Affectedly dainty or refined.  Synonyms: dainty, mincing, prim, twee.






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"Niminy-piminy" Quotes from Famous Books



... collar! I'll harry you and fluster you and heckle you and make a fool of you, and I'll roll you up in a ball and blow you out the window, and turn old Hassoun loose for an Egyptian holiday that will make old Rome look like thirty piasters! You pinheaded, pretentious, pompous, egotistical, niminy-piminy—" ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train

... you see? (just like a man!) you are charmed with these women, not with their dresses. 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. These women are what you men call fine creatures. Their limbs are rounded and shapely, their figures full and lithe; they ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various



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