Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A young hawk; an eyas.
  • noun A ninny; a simpleton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A young hawk; an eyas.
  • noun obsolete, by extension An unsophisticated person.

Etymologies

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French niais. See eyas.

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