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vietnam | ming |

As a proper noun vietnam

is vietnam.

vietnam

Alternative forms

* Viet Nam

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Southeast Asia, on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, officially named Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • The (Vietnam War).
  • Synonyms

    * Nam, 'Nam * Socialist Republic of Vietnam

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of a place (the site of the war) cannot win.
  • 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, meng

    Verb

  • 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:
  • the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].
  • (UK, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mixture.
  • Etymology 2

    Backformation from (minging).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
  • (British, slang) To be foul smelling.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) mingen, mengen, mungen, . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak of; mention; tell; relate.
  • To speak; tell; talk; discourse.
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