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mennom
mennom dial. (ˈmɛnəm) Forms: 7–8 minum, 7–9 minim, 8 menin, 8–9 mennin, 9 mennom, -on, -im, -um, -am, etc. (see E.D.D.) [? A corruption of minnow, due to association with minim.] = minnow.1654 Fuller Ephemeris Pref. 7 Minums will get through the holes thereof [sc. a drag-net]. 1674 Ray Collect. Word...
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mennard
mennard dial. (ˈmɛnəd) Also 8 mennot, 9 menner, mennad, menot. [Formation obscure: perh. connected with minnow.] = minnow.1796 Marshall Rur. Econ. Yorks. II. 333 Mennot,..the minnow. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Menner, Mennard, a minnow. 1904 menot [see mennom].
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mennam
menly, mennage, mennal, mennam see meanly adv.1, manage, menald, mennom.
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menny
mennot, mennow, mennum, menny see mennard, minnow, mennom, many.
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minam
minam var. mennom Obs. exc. dial., a minnow.1656 Spelman Villare Angl. Pref. 3 What Dragg-net..can be so cast to catch all Minams that come under it?
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minnow
minnow (ˈmɪnəʊ) Forms: [4 Sc. menoun,] 5 menawe, 5–8 menow, (5 pl. menwus), 6 menewe, menowe, 6–8 minew, 6–8, 9 dial. minnie, -ny, 7 menew, mynnowe, minoe, -ow, 7–9 mennow, 9 dial. or slang minner, 6– minnow. [Prob. repr. OE. *mynwe wk. fem. = OHG. munewa, munua (? for *muniwa) glossing L. capedo i....
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minume
▪ I. minum variant of mennom dial., minnow.▪ II. minum(e obs. forms of minim.
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minim
▪ I. minim, a. and n. (ˈmɪnɪm) Forms: 5 mynyn, mynnym, 6 mynym(me, minnum, 6–7 minime, minum, (6 minnem, 7 minem, min(n)om, minimme, (minume), 6– minim. [ad. L. minim-us smallest, a superlative f. the root min-: see minor. The n. represents various elliptical or absolute uses of the adj. in med.L. C...
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