“ninney”
Can’t remember when I last saw that word, had to look it up.
Turns out today it’s only spelled “ninny”, but certainly a ninny by any other spelling is just as foolish.
;-)
19th century orthography is always a hoot. I think they tried deliberately to spell the same word as many different ways as possible.
How many of our current elected officials/candidates are ninneys? (How many are gibbering gerbils?)