Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.
- n. A subordinate official, especially a servile one.
- n. One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which is beloved; a favorite; a darling.
- n. An intriguing favorite; one who gains grace by vile or unworthy means; a servile creature.
- n. Hence A pert or saucy girl or woman; one who is too bold or forward; a minx.
- n. A small printing-type, about 10½ lines to the inch, intermediate between the sizes nonpareil (smaller) and brevier (larger).
- n. A type of cannon in use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Fine; trim; dainty; delicate.
- n. An obsolete variant of minium.
- n. The sittings of ironstone after calcination at the iron-furnaces.
Wiktionary
- n. A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
- n. A sycophantic follower
- adj. Favoured, beloved; "pet".
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Minimum.
- n. obsolete A loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense.
- n. An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
- n. (Print.) A small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.
- n. obsolete An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.
- adj. obsolete Fine; trim; dainty.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a servile or fawning dependant
Etymologies
- 1490, from Middle French mignon ("lover, royal favourite, darling"), from Old French mignot ("dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind"), from Frankish *minnjo (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþiō, *mindiō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German minnja ("love, care, affection, desire, memory"), Old Saxon minnea ("love"). More at mind. (Wiktionary)
- French mignon, darling, from Old French mignot, mignon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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