different between minging vs taxonomy

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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