Vietnam vs Ming - What's the difference?
vietnam | ming |
A country in Southeast Asia, on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, officially named Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The (Vietnam War).
A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of a place (the site of the war) cannot win.
To mix, blend, mingle.
(obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
(UK, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
(British, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
(British, slang) To be foul smelling.
As a proper noun vietnam
is vietnam.vietnam
English
(wikipedia Vietnam)Alternative forms
* Viet NamProper noun
(en proper noun)Synonyms
* Nam, 'Nam * Socialist Republic of VietnamNoun
(en noun)- another Vietnam
- the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979–89 occupation of Afghanistan)
See also
* * Srebrenica, Chernobyl ----ming
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mingen, mengen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* minge, mengVerb
- the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].