Niminy-piminy

Definition: Niminy-piminy

Niminy-piminy

Adjective

1. Affectedly dainty or refined.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "niminy-piminy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Synonyms: Niminy-piminy

Albanian

me naze. (various references)

Bulgarian 

старомомински (old-maidish, prim), бездушен (exanimate, heartless, indurate, soulless, spiritless, toneless, torpid, unanimated, unsympathetic), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy), педантичен (academic, academical, bookish, donnish, finical, literal, mandarin, pedantic, pettifogging, precise, priggish, punctilious, punctual, scholastic, starchy, stuffy), дребнав (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, little, mean, mouldy, niggling, pernickety, pettifogging, petty, small, small minded, trivial). (various references)

Hungarian

finomkodó (genteel, kid-glove, mealy mouthed, mealy-mouthed, mincing, namby-pamby, ornate, prissy, proper). (various references)

Italian

affettato (affected, assumed, Dandy, euphuistic, finical, foppish, genteel, labored, laboured, mincing, pretty-pretty, prim, prissy, sliced). (various references)

Pig Latin

iminy-piminynay

Portuguese

resplendor (fire, flush, glint, glisten, glitter, halo, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, sheen, splendor, splendour), dengoso (namby-pamby), amaneirado (mannered, mincing machine, precious), afetado (affected, bijou, conceited, coxcombical, dandified, dollish, far fetched, finical, for, forced, fulsome, mannered, miminy-piminy, pompous, precious, pretentious, prim, scenic, scenical, smug, stilted, theatrical, wiredrawn). (various references)

Romanian

preţios (affected, bombastic, costly, dear, euphuistic, flatulent, golden, grandiose, mincing, namby-pamby, ornate, precious, valuable, valued), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian 

жеманный (affected, cutesy, mincing, prim and proper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mali i sladak. (various references)

Spanish

afectado (affected, artificial, camp, foppish, influenced, La-di-da, mincing, poseur, posh, precious, stilted, strained, studied, twee, unnatural). (various references)

Swedish

tillgjord (affected, genteel, mannered, mincing, precious), sipp (prim, prudish). (various references)

Thai

วางท่ามากเกินไป. (various references)

Turkish

titiz (careful, choosy, cleanly, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, exact, exacting, exigent, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hypercritical, jealous, jealous of, meticulous, niggling, particular, peevish, pernickety, picky, rigorous, scrupulous, squeamish, touchy), aşırı resmi (prim, unbending), çıtkırıldım (dandified, fragile, mincing, timid). (various references)

Ukranian 

манірний (affected, angular, ceremonious, donnish, finical, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, offish, prim, prudish, smug, starchy), жінкоподібний (female, feminine, womanish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

õng ẹo (mincing), điệu bộ m� u mèo. (various references)

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