Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affectedly fine or delicate; mincing.
- noun Affected fineness or delicacy; mincingness.
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- adjective An affected
fineness ordelicacy ; mincingness
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Examples
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"O Tom, what a nimini-pimini muff you are, to be sure!"
The Gorilla Hunters 1859
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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!
Agatha's Husband A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
hernesheir commented on the word nimini-pimini
"You have only, when before your glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini -- the lips cannot fail of taking their plie."
John Burgoyne (1722-1792), The Heiress
September 20, 2009