maneen

English

Etymology

From man +‎ -een.

Noun

maneen (plural maneens)

(Ireland) A little man.
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
  I was standing at the end of the South Terrace one day with some maneens like myself and sure we thought we were grand fellows because we had pipes stuck in the corners of our mouths.
  Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 88

Anagrams

Nemean

Spanish

Verb

maneen

inflection of manear:
1. third-person plural present subjunctive
2. third-person plural imperative

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