"ninnyhammer" meaning in All languages combined

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        {
          "text": "1608, A Yorkshire Tragedy, dubiously claimed to be by William Shakespeare\nWhy, the more fool she; aye, the more ninny hammer she."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull:",
          "text": "\"You silly, awkward, ill-bred country sow,\" quoth one, \"have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus that has saved that clod-pated numskulled ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1836, Joanna Baillie, Enthusiasm, act 2:",
          "text": "'Silly noodle!—foolish simpleton!—bewildered ninnyhammer! He had brains in his head once.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King:",
          "text": "'Well, if I don't deserve to be hung on the end of one as a warning to numbskulls! You're nowt but a ninnyhammer, Sam Gamgee: that's what the Gaffer said to me often enough, it being a word of his. Rope!'",
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      "glosses": [
        "a foolish person; a simpleton"
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          "foolish",
          "foolish"
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          "simpleton",
          "simpleton"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ninny"
        },
        {
          "word": "nincompoop"
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        {
          "word": "boob"
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        {
          "text": "1608, A Yorkshire Tragedy, dubiously claimed to be by William Shakespeare\nWhy, the more fool she; aye, the more ninny hammer she."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull:",
          "text": "\"You silly, awkward, ill-bred country sow,\" quoth one, \"have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus that has saved that clod-pated numskulled ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1836, Joanna Baillie, Enthusiasm, act 2:",
          "text": "'Silly noodle!—foolish simpleton!—bewildered ninnyhammer! He had brains in his head once.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King:",
          "text": "'Well, if I don't deserve to be hung on the end of one as a warning to numbskulls! You're nowt but a ninnyhammer, Sam Gamgee: that's what the Gaffer said to me often enough, it being a word of his. Rope!'",
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      "glosses": [
        "a foolish person; a simpleton"
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          "simpleton",
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    {
      "word": "ninny"
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    {
      "word": "nincompoop"
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      "word": "boob"
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