minging

minging · adjective¹

1. Old English · derived frommengan“to mix”
2. Middle English · derived frommengen“to mix”
3. Scots · derived frommingin“stinking”
4. English todayminging

From Scots mingin (“stinking”), present participle of ming (“to stink”), from Middle English mengen (“to mix”), from Old English mengan (“to mix”).

minging · noun²

From the present participle of mengen (“stir up someone's mind”) or formed from English ming (“to bring to (someone's) mind”). In Middle English, came to mean 'an exhortation'. In the 17th and 18th centuries attaining a specialized medical sense before becoming obsolete.

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