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meany

meany is the alternative spelling of meanie.

Meaning of meanie

Noun

meanie (plural meanies)

  1. (childish, informal) A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.
    • Teacher kept me in after school again. What a meanie!
  2. (informal) A villain.
    • If you like your wrestling rough, we've had besides such old and revered roughies as Lisowski, Schmidt, Herman, etc., some great new meanies.2006, Chad Dell, The Revenge of Hatpin Mary
    Synonyms:
    baddie

Proper noun capitalized: Meany

Meany (plural Meanys)

  1. A surname from Irish.

Forms of meany

Noun
pluralmeanies
Proper noun
pluralMeanys

Origin of meany

From mean + -y.

Variant of Mooney.

Questions about meany

What does meany mean?
Meany means a surname from Irish.
What is meany the alternative spelling of?
Meany is the alternative spelling of meanie.
What part of speech is meany?
Meany is a proper noun.

Words near meany in the dictionary

  1. meanwhile spaces
  2. meanwhile use
  3. meanwhile uses
  4. meanwhiles
  5. meanwhilst
  6. meany
  7. Meanys
  8. meaow
  9. meaowed
  10. meaowing
  11. meaows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meany (page history and authors); Meany (page history and authors); meanie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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