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語源 1

A variant of minnow.

名詞

minnie (plural minnies)

1. Alternative spelling of minnow.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter XIX, in Wild Life in a Southern County […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 356:

     In quiet, sheltered places, where the water is clear but does not run too swiftly, the ‘minnie,’ as the stickleback is locally called, makes its nest by the bank. […] On these fibres the ova are deposited, and they are then either purposely partly covered with sand by the minnie, or else the particles that are brought down by the current gather over the bundle of fibres and conceal it, excepting one small spot.

語源 2

Uncertain; probably a variant of mammy. Compare mummy.

名詞

minnie (plural minnies)

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

語源 3

Clipping of minenwerfer +‎ -ie.

別の表記

• Minnie

名詞

minnie (plural minnies)

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

参照

• Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 79