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Meynee vs Meinie - What's the difference?

meynee | meinie | Alternative forms |

Meynee is an alternative form of meinie.


As a noun meinie is

a household, or family.

meynee

Not English

Meynee has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'meynee':

mneme, mammae, meanie, minae, monie, momme, mammee, mooneye, meane, moone, meinie, mannie, mahone, meiome, moonie

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 [...].