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miminy-piminy, a. and n.|ˌmɪmɪnɪˈpɪmɪnɪ|
Also mimminee-pimminee.
[Intended as phonetically symbolic: cf. mim; also niminy-piminy.]
A. adj. Ridiculously delicate or over-refined; finicking.
1815M. Pilkington Celebrity II. 229 Your miminy-piminy fears of hurting the feelings. 1863Reade Hard Cash xxxiii, In a miminy-piminy voice [she] said she was come to make her submission. 1881W. S. Gilbert Patience ii, A miminy piminy, Je-ne-sais-quoi young man.
B. n. Finicking or affected composition.
1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets viii. 293 All the tantalizing, teasing, tripping, lisping mimminee-pimminee of the highest brilliancy and fashion of poetical diction. 1825― Spirit of Age 397 The two lines immediately after..are a mere piece of enigmatical ingenuity and scientific mimminee-pimminee. |