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Minx vs Mina - What's the difference?

minx | mina |

As nouns the difference between minx and mina

is that minx is a pert, flirtatious or impudent young woman while mina is the myna bird.

minx

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from (etyl)

Noun

(es)
  • A pert, flirtatious or impudent young woman.
  • * 1603', , Act 4, Scene 1
    • This is some minx' s token, and I must take out the work?
  • (obsolete) A female puppy; a pet dog.
    • (Udall)
    Derived terms
    * minxish

    Etymology 2

    See mink.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A mink.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    mina

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) maina'' "starling", from (etyl) ''madana .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The myna bird.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mina, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.
  • * 1989 , C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato?s Apology of Socrates , page 174,
    • What then of the actual fine of thirty minae' Socrates proposes? Thirty ' minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years? wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a libary of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras? book is any guide (26d6-e2).
  • (historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent.
  • * 1999 , Andrew George, translating Gilgamesh , VI:
    • Thirty minas' of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two ' minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.

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