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meng

meng is the alternative form of ming.

Meaning of ming

Verb (1)

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged or meint or ment or meynt)

  1. (archaic) To mix, blend, mingle.
    • I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof.1562, William Turner, Baths
  2. (obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
    • the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (Ireland, UK, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.

Verb (2)

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
  2. (Ireland, UK, slang) To be foul-smelling.

Verb (3)

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To speak of, to mention.

See all 16 meanings of ming

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Meng

Meng (plural Mengs)

  1. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
  2. A Cambodian surname from Khmer.
  3. A Germanic surname from German.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Meng

Meng

  1. A river in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Noun capitalized: MEng

MEng

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of M.Eng..

Forms of meng

Verb
third-person singular presentmengs
present participlemenging
past participlemenged
pastmenged
Proper noun
pluralMengs

Origin of meng

From non-English surnames: * From Khmer មេង (meing) * From Mandarin 孟 (Mèng). * From German Meng

From German Meng.

Words that rhyme with meng

Questions about meng

What does meng mean?
Meng means a Chinese surname from Mandarin.
What is meng the alternative form of?
Meng is the alternative form of ming.
What part of speech is meng?
Meng can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near meng in the dictionary

  1. menfluencers
  2. menfolk
  3. menfolks
  4. Menfra
  5. menfriends
  6. meng
  7. menged
  8. Mengel
  9. Mengelian
  10. Mengels
  11. Mengen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meng (page history and authors); Meng (page history and authors); MEng (page history and authors); ming (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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