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Ninty en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Diminutive with -y.

Meanings

  1. (slang) The video game company Nintendo.
    • Certainly, hearing that the 'Queues to get just 20 minutes with the shiny new Ninty handheld stretched for hours' reassure us that even games journalists at trade shows with copy deadlines are prepared to wait in line for their few minutes with the new device […] 2012, James Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, page 62:
    • With the Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance systems, 'Ninty' had lorded it over the competition […] 2009, India Today, volume 34, numbers 1-8, page 466:
    • Ninty have missed the boat this Xmas in the 20 something bracket, Starfox Adventures is not going to convince people to buy a gamecube. 2002, SteveC, “Xbox PS2 or Gamecube”, in uk.games.video.xbox (Usenet):