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Dear dodyskin: I searched for "British slang minging" and found this:
minging
Drunk, painful, disgusting, as in "I was totally minging last
night" or "My head is really minging".
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Dear dodyskin: here's a question for you: What does "retromingent" mean? If your dictionary doesn't have it, try this one: http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/alphabet/A/
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Is it the same as if spelled mingeing?
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Dear Slithy: Naw, I just picked that one because dodyskin's word reminded me of it. You could use the dictionary URL also. Bill
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Is the word an anglocized native of Argentina?
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nope, originated in scotland but meant a different thing there
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I got it! With wwh's help and deduction. Retromingent : An animal that discharges its urine backward. Therefore... Minging : A person in the act of discharging his urine forward. Life is simple if you pay attention to the clues. Milum. 
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Well, I didn't find anything on wwh's link that hit the nail on the head, urinating or otherwise, for the verb "to minge." There wasn't anything on a plausible, but apparently non-existent verb "to ming."
There was an obsolate verb "to minge" meaning to mingle or to mix. I take this to be a social meaning.
Could this social mingling be the minging that you're talking about, not that the urinary application isn't also plausible?
However, we speak of a person who's had too much to drink as being "pissed," so wwh's original application of "minging" way up at the top of the thread still makes the drunken/pissed/urination connections all come together.
But I like best the obsolete minging for social mingling the best.
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Minging miseries include micturition with trousers up and zipped. Ancient joke about guy trying to tell his wife his pants were wet because a guy in bar spilled beer in his lap. Wife said the guy must also have been a magician, because he shit in your pants.
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