meany

See also: Meany

English

Etymology

mean +‎ -y

Noun

meany (plural meanies)

  1. Alternative spelling of meanie.

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology

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

Noun

meany

  1. household, family.
  2. folks, people.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 56
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.