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6-letter words (1 found)

MINNOW,

4-letter words (6 found)

MINO,MOWN,NONI,NOWN,WINN,WINO,

3-letter words (12 found)

INN,ION,MOI,MON,MOW,NIM,NOM,NON,NOW,OWN,WIN,WON,

2-letter words (10 found)

IN,IO,MI,MO,NO,OI,OM,ON,OW,WO,

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Definitions and meaning of minnow

minnow

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English meneu, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), probably from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”), possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“minnow; small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”).

The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɪnəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɪnoʊ/
  • Homophone: mino (etymology 1)
  • Rhymes: -ɪnəʊ
  • Hyphenation: min‧now

Noun

minnow (plural minnows)

  1. Any small fish.
    Synonyms: minim, (Ireland) pinkeen
    2. The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
      Synonyms: (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) penk, (Ireland) pinkeen
    3. Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
      Synonym: minim
    5. (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
    7. (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
  2. (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
    Synonyms: nobody, no one, small fry, small potatoes; see also Thesaurus:nonentity
  3. (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.

Alternative forms

  • minnie, minny
  • minow, menow, menoe (obsolete)

Hyponyms

Family Cyprinidae
Other families
  • mudminnow (family Umbridae)
  • topminnow, top minnow (family Fundulidae)

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Adjective

minnow

  1. (rare) Very small; tiny.

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Verb

minnow (third-person singular simple present minnows, present participle minnowing, simple past and past participle minnowed) (intransitive, fishing)

  1. To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).
  2. To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.

Derived terms

  • minnower

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Further reading

  • minnow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Source: wiktionary.org