minnie

minnie (plural minnies)

1. (obsolete, informal, Northern England) mother; mummy

minnie (plural minnies)

1. (informal) mother; mummy
   • 1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character‎:

     One boy, on coming late, explained that the cause had been a regular pitched battle between his parents, with the details of which he amused his school-fellows; and he described the battle in vivid and Scottish Homeric terms: "And eh, as they faucht, and they faucht," adding, however, with much complacency, "but my minnie dang, she did tho'."

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   • 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)‎:

     "There's naething left in the fair Dodhead, But a greeting wife and bairnies three, And sax poor ca's[134] stand in the sta', A' routing loud for their minnie."

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   • 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns‎:

     When first I gaed to woo my Jenny, Ye then was trotting wi' your minnie: Tho' ye was trickie, slee, an' funnie, Ye ne'er was donsie; But hamely, tawie, quiet, an' cannie, An' unco sonsie.

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