meanie

[mee-nee]

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noun

Informal. meany.

meany

or mean·ie

[mee-nee]

noun, plural mean·ies. Informal.

a small-minded, petty, or malicious person: The children said their teacher was a real meany.

Origin of meany

First recorded in 1925–30; mean² + -y²

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Related Words for meanie

bully, brute, beast, tyrant, creep, meany

British Dictionary definitions for meanie

meanie

meany

noun plural meanies informal

mainly British a miserly or stingy person

mainly US a nasty ill-tempered person

meany

noun

informal a variant spelling of meanie

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Word Origin and History for meanie

also meany, "cruel person," 1927, from mean (adj.) + -y (3).

meany

see meanie.