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Meinie vs Heinie - What's the difference?

meinie | heinie |

As nouns the difference between meinie and heinie

is that meinie is a household, or family while heinie is (us|slang) a german, especially a german soldier.

As a proper noun heinie is

(us) a diminutive form of heinrich, or its english cognate henry, sometimes applied to a person of (real or supposed) german heritage.

meinie

English

Alternative forms

* mayne, , meiny, meynee, meynie

Noun

(en noun)
  • A household, or family.
  • * 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • whan they in the castell wyste how Sir Palomydes had sped, there was a joyfull mayné .
  • (archaic, or, historical) A retinue.
  • * c.1390 , :
    • That, for the tirant is of gretter myght, / By force of meynee', for to sleen dounright, / And brennen hous and hoom, and make al playn, / Lo, therfore is he cleped a capitayn; / And for the outlawe hath but smal ' meynee , / And may nat doon so greet an harm as he, / Ne brynge a contree to so greet mescheef, / Men clepen hym an outlawe or a theef.
  • * 1965 , Jack Robert Lander, The Wars of the Roses ,
    • And in the evening they went with their simple captain to his lodging; but a certain of his simple and rude meinie abode there all the night [...].
  • A crowd of people; a rabble.
  • * 1608 , , The Tragedy of Coriolanus :
    • For the mutable ranke-sented Meynie , / Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, / And therein behold themselues [...].

    heinie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The buttocks.
  • * 1992 , , The First Wives Club , page 200,
    • She had spent enough time kissing heinies' to wear her lips right off. And Shelby Symington didn't like kissing '''heinies . Down in Atlanta, where she was from, people used to line up to kiss ''hers .
  • * 2001 , Stephen Coonts, America : Jake Grafton, Book 9, 2013, unnumbered page,
    • “I hope you're right,” Jake said, “because if you aren't “Jacob Lee Grafton, we've been betting our heinies for a lot of years. One more big bet won't make any difference.”
  • * 2007 , Sarah Mayberry, Hot for Him , page 68,
    • But Leandro simply could not reconcile himself to the thought of her taking all the risk to save both their heinies .