meany

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mean +‎ -y

Noun[edit]

meany (plural meanies)

  1. Alternative spelling of meanie.

Anagrams[edit]

Yola[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

meany

  1. household, family
  2. folks, people

References[edit]

  • 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