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I can understand why others would not believe him - but I do maintain that I can think this way without being a ninnyhammer.— Family Reformation
You needn't attempt to argue with me, because you are a ninnyhammer, and I am a second Nestor.— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations
I pursued the sad inquiry: 'A noodle, a pigwidgeon, a ninnyhammer, a bubble on the wave, a leaf in the wind, Madame! '— More Trivia
Conrad! ninnyhammer! sack of straw! 'so it seemed that everything was shouting in my ears.— The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
Its nooan yor bacon shoo wants; -- its thee shoo's after, but tha'rt sich a ninnyhammer at tha can't see it. "— Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect

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