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  • verb UK, slang To be unattractive (person or object).
  • verb UK, slang To be foul smelling.
  • verb To mix, blend, mingle.
  • verb obsolete To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
  • verb UK, dialectal To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
  • noun Mixture.
  • verb transitive To speak of; mention; tell; relate.
  • verb intransitive To speak; tell; talk; discourse.

Etymologies

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Backformation from minging.

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From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan ("to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse"), from Proto-Germanic *mangijanan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen ("to mix, blend, mingle"), German mengen ("to mix"), Danish mænge ("to rub"), Old English ġemang ("mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation"). More at among.

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From Middle English mingen, mengen, mungen, muneȝen, from Old English myngian, mynegian, ġemynegian ("to bring to mind, have in mind"), from myne ("mind"), from ġemunan ("to remember"), from Proto-Germanic *munanan (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Merged in Middle English with Old English ġemyndgian ("to remember, be mindful, remind, intend, commemorate, mention, exhort, impel, warn, demand payment"). More at mind.

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Examples

  • Links to this post novruz break sheep and a broken down ferris wheel in ming our reservoir at the hotel riverside in ... checking out the rowing competition

    Archive 2009-03-01 alexis 2009

  • There are three "mountain fingers" in azerbaijan. these are mountain areas that jut either northward or westward and are somewhat separated from azerbaijan's mainland (ming is in the mainland closest to the sheki -- zaqatala finger). it appears mostly CEDs live in the quba-sizayan finger and so i got pst reminisce, talk shop, and eat burittos. ain't nothing wrong with that.

    Archive 2009-02-01 alexis 2009

  • On the other hand, the video shows that blog­gers, online com­mu­ni­ties etc. and amazon-like mod­els com­bin­ing to form a sim­i­lar envi­ron­ment stem­ming from a grass­roots level, but which par­al­lels the con­di­tion of top-down media.

    PEJ Writes Up EPIC « Snarkmarket 2005

  • The party congress declared that most of these enterprises—as many as a hundred thousand—would be divorced from the state and operated on the principle of what is sometimes called ming ying—“people-owned companies.”

    THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • My (very) humble efforts this week: in 'ming' - closed as no longer occurred.

    Planet Debian 2009

  • My (very) humble efforts this week: in 'ming' - closed as no longer occurred.

    Planet Debian 2009

  • Mr. Raymond T. Moyer, writing from Taiku, Shansi, reports that farmers there know as ming a stem borer of rice and of millet.

    The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1944

  • When they eat the heart [of plants], they are called ming

    The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1944

  • he didn't call ming the leader of the opposition. listen again. he said it was funny that the leader of the opposition cameron hadn't mentioned transferable tax allowances.

    A Bore Draw at PMQs 2007

  • Choose 'ming', get 'brown', - now where have I heard that before ?

    Tory MP Admits to Wanting to Snog Sir Ming 2007

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relateds (2)

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  1. minger
  2. minging

rhymes (44)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Beijing
  2. Bing
  3. Chongqing
  4. Ging
  5. Jing
  6. King
  7. Peking
  8. Ping
  9. Qing
  10. Ring
  11. Singh
  12. Thing
  13. bing
  14. bring
  15. ching
  16. cling
  17. ding
  18. fling
  19. ging
  20. hing
  21. ing
  22. jing
  23. king
  24. ling
  25. ng
  26. ping
  27. ring
  28. ringe
  29. schwing
  30. shing
  31. sing
  32. sling
  33. spring
  34. sting
  35. string
  36. swing
  37. thing
  38. ting
  39. unring
  40. upswing
  41. wing
  42. wring
  43. xing
  44. zing

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