menyie

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English menie.

Noun

menyie (plural menyies)

1. household, family, kin
2. crowd

References

• “menyie, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.