different between mingei vs minger

English

Etymology

Japanese ??????, “hand-crafted art of ordinary people”.

Noun

mingei (uncountable)

1. A Japanese folk art movement focusing on inexpensive hand-made everyday items.

Anagrams

• Gemini

English

Etymology

See minging (from Scots mingin) and -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???/

Noun

minger (plural mingers)

1. (Britain, slang, offensive) An unattractive or ugly person (of either sex).

   She's a minger!

References

Synonyms

• munter
• ugly duckling

Anagrams

• germin, mering

Picard

Etymology

From Old Northern French mengier, northern variant of Old French mangier, from Latin manducare, present active infinitive of manduco.

Verb

minger

1. to eat

   I n’o rin mingè innui

   He didn't eat anything today

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ming? (“to urinate”), itself from Proto-Italic *h?mi-n-??-, n-infix of *h?mey??-. Cognate with Latin m?i?, Ancient Greek ?????? (omeíkh?), Sanskrit ????? (mehati), Old Norse míga, Tocharian B mi?o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min?xe?/, [m???xe?]

Verb

minger (first-person singular present minjo, first-person singular preterite mingí, past participle mingido)

1. (nonstandard, rare) to urinate

   Synonyms: orinar, (vulgar) mear

   • 1998, Andrés Trapiello, Una caña que piensa

     orinales en los que han mingido tres generaciones de viejos prostáticos

   • 2000, Andrés Trapiello, Las inclemencias del tiempo

     estaba uno en los mingitorios de la planta baja, mingiendo, se me apareció

Conjugation

Related terms

• micción
• micto
• mictor
• mictriz
• mingencia
• mingente