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• mim
  mim

  adjective

  primly modest or demure.
• mīm
  mīm

  noun

  the twenty-fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.

mim

¹ American  

[mim] / mɪm /

adjective

British Dialect.

1. primly modest or demure.

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mīm ² American  

[meem] / mim /

noun

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

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mim British  

/ mɪm /

adjective

1. dialect prim, modest, or demure

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Etymology

Origin of mim¹

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

Origin of mīm²

From Arabic

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Example Sentences

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mim mīm

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

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

It's always better to be humble!" and added aloud, with a fine-lady drawl,— "No, mim; it's not the style I've been subject to.

From Prudy Keeping House by Sophie May

Though as she thocht she didna speak, An' lookit unco mim an' meek, Yet blythe was she wi' Rab to cleek In marriage, wi' the care o't.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

“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 James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Now, an't you the better for it, mim?

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

Mime, mīm, n. a farce in which scenes from actual life were represented by gesture: an actor in such a farce.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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