"bliss ninny" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-bliss ninny.ogg [Australia] Forms: bliss ninnies [plural]
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  1. (slang, derogatory) A person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna, and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than engaging meaningfully with the difficulty at hand. Tags: derogatory, slang Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-bliss_ninny-en-noun-cBJuB1bZ Disambiguation of People: 59 41 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48
  2. (slang, spirituality) A student who may seem to be intoxicated with spiritual teachings, but is ungrounded or untrained. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-bliss_ninny-en-noun-iCBcyHP8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 39 61 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48

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