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Minnie

Minnie

See also: minnie

English

Proper noun

Minnie

A diminutive of Wilhelmina, Minerva, Mary, Mina or Mamie. Popular as a formal female given name in the 19th century.
- 1880 Emily Faithfull, The Victoria Magazine, v.36 (July-Dec 1880), page 264
  When they are used to express the affectionate regard of near friends and relatives they also may be pretty and appropriate, but they look very silly in a formal signature, and surely do not befit the dignity of womanhood. We had, for instance, among these 800 names scores of Minnies, Mamies, and only here and there a Mary, a much more euphonious as well as a dignified name.

minnie

minnie

See also: Minnie

Scots

Noun

minnie ‎(plural minnies)

mom; mummy
- 1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:
  One boy, on coming late, explained that the cause had been a regular pitched battle between his parents, with the details of which he amused his school-fellows; and he described the battle in vivid and Scottish Homeric terms: "And eh, as they faucht, and they faucht," adding, however, with much complacency, "but my minnie dang, she did tho'."
- 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3):
  "There's naething left in the fair Dodhead, But a greeting wife and bairnies three, And sax poor ca's[134] stand in the sta', A' routing loud for their minnie."
- 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:
  When first I gaed to woo my Jenny, Ye then was trotting wi' your minnie: Tho' ye was trickie, slee, an' funnie, Ye ne'er was donsie; But hamely, tawie, quiet, an' cannie, An' unco sonsie.