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Manny vs Minny - What's the difference?

manny | minny |

As nouns the difference between manny and minny

is that manny is a male nanny for children while minny is a minnow.

As a proper noun Manny

is a diminutive=Emmanuel given name.

manny

English

Noun

(mannies)
  • (informal) A male nanny (for children).
  • *2006 [Perry Taylor] has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny – or "manny" – for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston and is pregnant. — CBS News, 9 June 2006

    • See also

    * mannie * Mannie * Manny

    minny

    English

    Noun

    (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
    (Webster 1913)