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• minnie
  minnie

  noun

  mother; mom.
• Minnie
  Minnie

  noun

  a female given name, form of Mary.

minnie

¹ American  

[min-ee] / ˈmɪn i /

Or minny

noun

Scots and North England Informal.

1. mother; mom.

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Minnie ² American  

[min-ee] / ˈmɪn i /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Mary.

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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

Bad luck on the pennie that tempted my minnie To sell her poor Jenny for siller an’ lan’!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

I. Her daddie forbad, her minnie forbad; Forbidden she wadna be: She wadna trow’t, the browst she brew’d Wad taste sae bitterlie.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert