minny
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See also: Minny
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmɪni/
- Homophones: mini, Minnie
Noun
[edit]minny (plural minnies)
- A minnow.
- 1901, Charles Conrad Abbott, A naturalist's rambles about home:
- All I know is, it doesn't seem strange in the turkeys, and same way I've seen rock-fish move like soldiers on a school of minnies; but for the plovers to do the like seemed all out of place, somehow […]
References
[edit]- “minny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.