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adj
Very unattractive; ugly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
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adj
Unclean or dirty; disgusting and foul-smelling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
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noun
A premonitory symptom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: no-plural, obsolete, rare
Topics: medicine, sciences
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History
From Scots mingin (“stinking”), present participle of ming (“to stink”), from Middle English mengen (“to mix”), from Old English mengan (“to mix”).
From the present participle of mengen (“stir up someone's mind”) or formed from English ming (“to bring to (someone's) mind”). In Middle English, came to mean 'an exhortation'. In the 17th and 18th centuries attaining a specialized medical sense before becoming obsolete.
