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English
Etymology
mean + -y
Noun
meany (plural meanies)
- Alternative spelling of meanie.
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English meyne, from Anglo-Norman meine, meignee and Old French mesne, from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta.
Pronunciation
Noun
meany
- household, family
- 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