Ming
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /mɪŋ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Ming is a verb meaning (now rare) To mix, blend, mingle.
Meaning
(now rare) To mix, blend, mingle.
More Meanings
- (UK, Ireland, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
- (UK, Ireland) A mixture.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
- (UK, Ireland, slang) To be foul-smelling.
- (transitive, obsolete) To speak of, to mention.
- (UK, Lincolnshire, obsolete, land) The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership.
- (obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
Example Sentences
the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].
I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof.
17 September 1811, [Description of] Counterpart of Demise from John Thorold to John Wilson of Grantham, Lincolnshire Archives, Ref. Thor 1/2/ZA25/4 Published by The National Archives, Accessed 19 June 2022. Property: 1. 6 acres of land in ming with a meadow of Glebe land of the rectory of Grayingham.
Word Forms
- mings
- minging
- minged
- minge
Synonyms for ming
Depending on context, synonyms include bemingle, combine, mang, meddle, admix, amalgamate.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include next, indicate, identification, clear, tabular, expressly.
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