If, on the other hand, they consider myself an inexperienced Oriental Ninnyhammer of a fellow, who has been entrapped into an engagement by an ambitious, artful young woman-why, that may incline them to inflict a merely nominal penalty.
"Baboo Jabberjee, B.A."
F. Anstey
Before I knew you were the abject Ninnyhammer that you have just told me you are I had a good opinion of you, and thought that you were cut out to make a first-class traveller and explorer-the sort of a fellow who could lead a surveying expedition through the wilderness, or work up new countries and find out what they are made of and what's in them.
"The Associate Hermits"
Frank R. Stockton
Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd Ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown