Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affectedly fine or delicate; mincing.
- n. Affected fineness or delicacy; mincingness.
Wiktionary
- adj. An affected fineness or delicacy; mincingness.
Examples
“O Tom, what a nimini-pimini muff you are, to be sure!”
“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!”
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hernesheir "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 Sep 19, 2009