bliss ninny

bliss ninny
a) A person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than to directly engage with the difficulty at hand in a meaningful way.
b) A student who may seem to be intoxicated with spiritual teachings, but is ungrounded or untrained.

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  • bliss ninny — [“blis “nini] n. a giddy and disoriented person; a blissed out person. (See bliss (out).) □ You silly bliss ninny. Who watches over you, anyway? □ Tiffany is such a bliss ninny all heart though …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • ignorance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of knowledge Nouns 1. ignorance, nescience; illiteracy; darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, simpleness, innocence; stupidity; unawareness. See folly, insanity,… …   English dictionary for students

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