different between minging vs ming

English

Etymology

From Scots mingin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m????/

• Rhymes: -????

Adjective

minging (comparative more minging, superlative most minging)

1. (Britain, slang) Unattractive or repulsive.
   • 2011, Melvin Burgess, Kill All Enemies, Penguin UK (?ISBN)

2. (Britain, slang) Unclean or dirty.
   • 2011, Lucy Kellaway, The Answers: All the office questions you never dared to ask, Profile Books (?ISBN), page 82

Further reading

• “minging”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /m??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-Germanic *mangijan? (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ?emang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among.

Alternative forms

• minge, meng

Verb

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged or meint or ment)

1. (now rare) To mix, blend, mingle.
   • 1562, William Turner, Baths:

     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.

2. (obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].

3. (Britain, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.

Synonyms

• (to mix): bemingle, combine, mang, meddle; see also Thesaurus:mix
• (to have sex): do it, get it on, meddle; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Noun

ming (plural mings)

1. Mixture.

Etymology 2

Backformation from minging.

Verb

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

1. (Britain, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
2. (Britain, slang) To be foul-smelling.

Related terms

• minger
• minging

Etymology 3

From Middle English mingen, mengen, mungen, mune?en, from Old English myngian, mynegian, ?emynegian (“to bring to mind, have in mind”), from myne (“mind”), from ?emunan (“to remember”), from Proto-Germanic *munan? (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Merged in Middle English with Old English ?emyndgian (“to remember, be mindful, remind, intend, commemorate, mention, exhort, impel, warn, demand payment”). More at mind.

Alternative forms

• minge

Verb

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

1. (transitive) To speak of; mention; tell; relate.
2. (intransitive) To speak; tell; talk; discourse.

Mandarin

Romanization

ming

1. Nonstandard spelling of m?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of míng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of m?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mìng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Scots

Noun

ming (plural mings)

1. smell

Uzbek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?/

Numeral

ming

1. thousand