Meaning

2 senses

  1. (World War I, slang)A minenwerfer trench mortar.

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, childish, endearing, obsolete)Mother, mummy.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Eve swore Minnie to secrecy in hopes that she wouldn't tattle about what they'd done.

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Origin

Uncertain; probably a variant of mammy. Compare mummy. Clipping of minenwerfer + -ie.

Uncertain; probably a variant of mammy. Compare mummy.

Clipping of minenwerfer + -ie.

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Forms

plural: minnies
Singularminnie
Pluralminnies

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ministryminivanminkminnowminorB1
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