Meaning

1 senses

  1. (rare)Very small; tiny.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. I fish for trout with minnows.

    deIch fische Forelle mit Elritzen. — christian63

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  2. Tom is a minnow in the Boston academic community.

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  3. Sometimes I like to feed leftover breadcrumbs to the minnows in the neighborhood pond.

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  4. The opposition minnows fought a desperate rearguard action in defence of their one-goal lead.

    deDie kleinen Fische der generischen Mannschaft verteidigten in erbitterter Verteidigungsschlacht ihren Eintorvorsprung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Europe is a minnow when it comes to the chips that are vital to high-end manufacturing.

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Origin

The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) co

The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”).

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