minny
See also: Minny
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmɪni/
- Homophones: mini, Minnie
Noun
editminny (plural minnies)
- A minnow.
- 1901, Charles Conrad Abbott, A naturalist's rambles about home:
- All I know is, it doesn't seem strange in the turkeys, and same way I've seen rock-fish move like soldiers on a school of minnies; but for the plovers to do the like seemed all out of place, somehow […]
References
edit- “minny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.