Careful Words

ninny (n.)

Some say, compar'd to Bononcini,

That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;

Others aver that he to Handel

Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.

Strange all this difference should be

'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

John Byrom (1691-1763): On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.