mim

¹ American  

[mim] / mɪm /

adjective

British Dialect.

1. primly modest or demure.

---

mīm ² American  

[meem] / mim /

noun

1. the twenty-fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.

---

mim British  

/ mɪm /

adjective

1. dialect prim, modest, or demure

---

Etymology

Origin of mim¹

1670–80; perhaps blend of mum ¹ and prim ¹

Origin of mīm²

From Arabic

Example Sentences

The term meme originates from the Greek root mim, meaning “mime” or “mimic,” and the English suffix -eme.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

“If you hadn’t the sweetness of an angel in you, mim, I don’t think you could abear it, I raly don’t.”

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

You was always glad to see people in spirits, wasn't you, mim?

From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles

The general tendency is towards that thinning of the vowel that we get in mister for master and Miss Miggs's mim for ma'am.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

But "Tut!" quoth she; "a mim cat's never gude at the mice," and she lifted him out by the scruff of his neck, crying, "Run, mousie, or I'll catch ye!"

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas