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Minnie vs Minny - What's the difference?

minnie | minny |

As nouns the difference between minnie and minny

is that minnie is mom; mummy while minny is a minnow.

minnie

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of Wilhelmina, Minerva, Mary, Mina or Mamie. Popular as a formal female given name in the 19th century.
  • * 1880 , The Victoria Magazine , v.36 (July-Dec 1880), page 264
    • When they are used to express the affectionate regard of near friends and relatives they also may be pretty and appropriate, but they look very silly in a formal signature, and surely do not befit the dignity of womanhood. We had, for instance, among these 800 names scores of Minnies , Mamies, and only here and there a Mary, a much more euphonious as well as a dignified name.
    English diminutives of female given names

    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)