minny

See also: Minny

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɪni/
Homophones: mini, Minnie

Noun

minny (plural minnies)

A minnow.
- 1901, Charles Conrad Abbott, A naturalist's rambles about home:
  All I know is, it doesn't seem strange in the turkeys, and same way I've seen rock-fish move like soldiers on a school of minnies; but for the plovers to do the like seemed all out of place, somehow […]

References

“minny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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