ninnyhammer

• 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

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms