minnie

¹ American  

[min-ee] / ˈmɪn i /

Or minny

noun

Scots and North England Informal.

1. mother; mom.

---

Minnie ² American  

[min-ee] / ˈmɪn i /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Mary.

---

Etymology

Origin of minnie

First recorded in 1600–10; origin uncertain; perhaps a pet name variant of mither

Example Sentences

I need you to perform at her party with specifically a minnie mouse dead-mow-five head… not a mickey mouse dead-mow-five head.

From Time • Mar. 2, 2016

With the belligerence of Ukip leader Nigel Farage, standard-bearers of the unapologetically three-dimensional say: Shove your skinny minnie game, because we're not playing.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2013

Get a minnie mouse bandage and go to sleep.”

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2010

My minnie does constantly deave me, mother, deafen And bids me beware o' young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me; But wha can think sae o' Tam Glen?

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

There are no rounded shoulders to the m and n and the word minnie would be written by five small u's.

From The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents by Blackburn, Douglas