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Meiny vs Meinie - What's the difference?

meiny | meinie | Alternative forms |

Meinie is a alternative form of meiny.



As nouns the difference between meiny and meinie

is that meiny is alternative form of meinie while meinie is a household, or family.

meiny

English

Noun

(meinies)

    • 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 maynĂ© .
  • (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 [...].