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A strait in Scotland, between the north-west Highlands and the northern Inner Hebrides.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
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noun
A nun.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
Alternative form of mince.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, dialectal
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verb
Alternative form of mitch (“play truant from school”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
Reduced form of Minnish or Minchin.
From Middle English mynche, a reduced form of minchen, monchen, from Old English myneċen (“a female monk, nun”), from Proto-Germanic *munikinnō (“female monk”), from *munikaz (“monk”), from Late Latin monachus (“monk”), from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “hermit”, noun), from μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”, adjective), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *menw-, *manw- (“small, little, isolated”). Cognate with German Mönchin (“female monk”). Related also to minnow. More at monk.
From Middle English menchen, a variant of mincen. More at mince.
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