mings

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

   Synonyms:

   bemingle, combine, mang, meddle, admix, amalgamate, blend, commingle, intermingle, intermix

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.

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