Did you possibly mean one of these? mincing, minding, mingling, mining, minting
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. UK, slang unattractive or repulsive
- adj. UK, slang unclean or dirty
Etymologies
- From the Scots word mingin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(Potteries usage)Incidentally, in the lead-in to the Elmes quote, the word minging is used; for those who, like myself, were wondering how it's pronounced, it rhymes with singing and is Scots in origin, meaning (according to the OED) That smells bad, stinking; (more generally) unpleasant, foul.”
“Haha, you're proper loving the word minging at the moment aren't you?”
“Except for the little things like the 'minging' toilets that take away the pleasure of one of the most exciting activities of the day i.e taking a dump with a good book The mood has to be right!”
“Leo was really "minging," as he told us about a goddamn jillion times, and was walking slow as hell as we wandered down the street waiting for a cab to show up.”
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“Earlier on in the week, she told a paper that although she is looking forward to having kids, she hopes they're not "minging".”
“My dad's Jamaican so he made a lot of Jamaican food, and my mum did lots of traditional shepherd's pies and homemade quiches, but I was brought up on some really minging things as well – my mum gave me liquidised tripe when I was a baby.”
The Guardian: Jessica Ennis: 'I'm so hungry by the end of a heptathlon that I just want to indulge'
“How is that any different from the journalists who wrote about it tapping a stranger on the shoulder at a party in order to crow to fellow guests that she has "minging hooves"?”
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“The beach-side railway: lovely view from the trains, bit minging looking at them.”
“Where else could the frankly minging Georgia Gould be described as a pretty little princess to rival Miley Cyrus?”
“Dere was somefing minging in de state of Denmark.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘minging’.
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English words of Scots origin
If it's not ...
blackmail, blatant, caddie, caddy, clan, convene, cosy, firth, glamour, gloaming, golf, glengarry and 15 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
doing, boing, going, tincture, pingback, womenswear, jounce, wrack, a, ish, beeswax, thither and 97 more...
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Distinctly British
Mostly but not limited to slang and some cockney guffy wibble
haberdashery, coventry, knackered, cack-handed, bate, bimble, blag, boffin, bonce, brolly, busk, cack and 71 more...
Tweets
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mdonley Minging things make you say "ew!", because they're dirty, ugly, or just plain repulsive! This runs the gamut from food to hairstyles on your neighbors' heads to that pair of old trousers you found in the attic, with the giant Yosemite Sam patch on the right thigh.
It is, primarily, used in Britain.
Like many -ing words, the final g is often "silent". An approximate pronunciation would be /'m?? ?n/ - that's the stress on the first syllable there.
An example (Twitter's better for this, though):
That cardigan is minging! First, who would glue all those rhinestones onto the zipper? And second, why is it puce? Jul 7, 2009