meiny
Americannoun
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meinies
plural
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Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.
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Scot. Archaic. a multitude; crowd.
noun
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a retinue or household
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a crowd
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Etymology
Origin of meiny
1250–1300; Middle English meynee household < Old French meyne, mesnie, mesnede < Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta. See mansion, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Even a very young child knows that "eenty meenty meiny moe" is not real sense, though it is a pleasant string of sounds to say in a game.
From Music Talks with Children by Thomas Tapper
Whate'er on Etzel's meiny had late been wrought by him, A puff was to the tempest that now to rise began; So furiously did battle the son of Aldrian.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Then thither with his meiny came Dankrat's haughty son, And thither too grim Hagan; it had been better left undone.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
When Kent says that Cornwall and Regan— "Summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The Captain of Harflete soon anon Unto our King he sent hastily To know what his will was to be done, For to come thither with such a meiny?
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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