Meanings
mino1
- historicalA traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.
mino2
plural minos
- archaicArchaic form of myna (“type of bird”).
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He is a native of East India and its adjacent islands, but the high estimation in which the Mino is held amongst the natives, and the ready sale which promising specimens realise (the equivalent of £2 being often paid in India) render it difficult to obtain a really good bird in England except at an extravagant price.
c. 1877–1879, C[harles]. W[illiam]. Gedney, Foreign cage birds, volume 2, →OCLC, page 195
Mino3
Origin
mino · noun
- Japanese蓑
- Englishmino
Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).
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Full word history & related roots →mino · noun
Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese 美濃 /美浓
- 美濃 /美浓 (Měinóng)city in Japan
Japanese 美濃
- 美濃city in Japan
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mino. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mino
“mino.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mino. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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