meany

See also: Meany

English

Etymology

From mean +‎ -y.

Noun

meany (plural meanies)

1. Alternative spelling of meanie.

Anagrams

• Eyman, Maney, Mayen, Mayne, manye, yamen, yeman

Yola

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːˈniː/

Noun

meany

1. household, family
2. folks, people

References

• 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