Hinged vs Minged - What's the difference?
hinged | minged |
Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
(slang) Extremely high on drugs.
(of a postage stamp) Affixed with a stamp hinge
(hinge)
(ming)
To mix, blend, mingle.
(obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
(UK, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
(British, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
(British, slang) To be foul smelling.
As verbs the difference between hinged and minged
is that hinged is (hinge) while minged is (ming).As an adjective hinged
is affixed by a hinge, as a door.hinged
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Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)minged
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Verb
(head)ming
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) mingen, mengen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* minge, mengVerb
- the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].