myn

M3Y4N1

noun

Feminist spelling of men (plural of man)

UncommonScrabble 8
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

myn1

nounmyn (plural myns)

plural myns

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of mine.

myn2

adjectivemyn (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of mean.
nounmyn (plural myns)

plural myns

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of mean.

myn3

nounmyn pl (plural only)
  1. humorouspluralplural onlyrareFeminist spelling of men (plural of man)

    I do not expect to be included in all 'womyn space' (nor, truth be told, do I wish to be). But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.

    2005, Lisa Lees, Fragments of Gender, →ISBN, page 30
    2 more examples

    Old Yeller — Senior animal companion of color. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — One of the monocultural oppressed womyn confronts the vertically challenged. Men at Arms — The myn are at it again.

    1994, John Leo, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police, →ISBN, page 41

    […] the 12th Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival is here. (Once again, myn are strictly forbidden.) The weekend-long event holds the promise of craft markets, acoustic folk sing-alongs, and Southern-food potlucks.

    2000 April, Out, volume 8, number 10, page 54

Origin

Respelling of men based on womyn, which was itself respelled so as to be spelled differently from men.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

nym
Cite this entry
APA

myn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/myn

MLA

“myn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/myn. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “myn,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/myn.

Source: myn on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.