meany
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ni noun, plural mean·ies. Informal.
a small-minded, petty, or malicious person: The children said their teacher was a real meany.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
meanie or meany (ˈmiːnɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl meanies | |
| 1. | chiefly (Brit) a miserly or stingy person |
| 2. | chiefly (US) a nasty ill-tempered person |
| meany or meany | |
| —n | |
| meany (ˈmiːnɪ) | |
| —n | |
| informal a variant spelling of meanie | |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
We still have many, meany years until this type of technology is implemented into every day lives.
Meany said he has a site plan but it shows no excavation.
Meany indicated that it was a barebones budget and they are sticking to it.
Meany's research showed that, in rats, hippocampus size is influenced by maternal nurturing behavior such as licking after birth.
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