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- noun Plural form of
minny .
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Examples
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It seemed that Fritz had the range of the Quarries to an inch and was in the habit of sending over "minnies" at intervals just to let us know he wasn't asleep.
A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes
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He sent over very few "minnies" or rifle grenades, and there was hardly any shelling of the sector.
A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes
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"minnies" were constantly stealing over with evil intent to batter down our flimsy breastworks.
The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson
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And his calming presence helped repair relations with the Conservative government, which had branded the organisation "moaning minnies", when he took over as president in 1984.
Sir James Cleminson obituary Martin Adeney 2010
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What a bunch of moaning minnies - you'd be well suited to my Auntie's gaggling of gossiping hags back home.
Twitter's five-year evolution from ridicule to dissidents' tool 2011
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And all the moaning minnies who sneer at Camerons reluctance to unveil policies early should realise it.
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✒ Go to the website theweeklygripe, a sort of bulletin board for moaning minnies like me, and you'll see loads of complaints about Ryanair.
Simon Hoggart's week: Bring back David Laws – and soon! 2010
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And all the moaning minnies who sneer at Camerons reluctance to unveil policies early should realise it.
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I gotta hand it to you though - all the colors, the smells, tall, petites, skinny-minnies or whoppin 'whale-sized motha'humphries - you got variety.
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TV anchor desks may be staffed by skinny minnies who live on Dentyne and Starbucks, but the rest of us look more like the rounded doc from the Bayou (aka Dr. Benjamin).
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