meany

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English

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Etymology

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From mean +‎ -y.

Noun

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meany (plural meanies)

  1. Alternative spelling of meanie.

Anagrams

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English meny, from Anglo-Norman meine, meignee and Old French mesne, from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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meany

  1. household, family
  2. folks, people

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56