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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum #6620 09/20/00 09:44 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia >I wonder if that would help with a current popular Scottish slang word - "minging" - usually pronounced mingin', apparantly means smelly or dirty but applied to anything unpleasant< Do either mingit or mingin relate to mingy? I always assumed that it came from 'mean' and 'stingy' (and that's what Cambridge on-line said - thanks for bringing the listing back up tsuwm!), but now I'm not so sure Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Max Quordlepleen 09/17/00 07:18 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum Max Quordlepleen 09/17/00 07:37 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum tsuwm 09/17/00 08:54 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum Max Quordlepleen 09/17/00 09:05 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum Jazzoctopus 09/18/00 09:42 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum jmh 09/20/00 08:10 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum Bridget 09/20/00 09:44 AM Re: mingy tsuwm 09/20/00 02:47 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum jmh 09/27/00 10:40 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum TEd Remington 09/27/00 02:09 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum RhubarbCommando 09/27/00 02:56 PM Taking the Mick??? TEd Remington 09/27/00 03:30 PM Re: Taking the Mick??? jmh 09/27/00 07:45 PM Re: Taking the Mick...and micturate Marty 09/27/00 08:37 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? RhubarbCommando 09/25/00 10:08 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? maverick 09/25/00 02:11 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? RhubarbCommando 09/25/00 03:17 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? maverick 09/25/00 04:25 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? RhubarbCommando 09/27/00 08:58 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Max Quordlepleen 09/25/00 08:50 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? RhubarbCommando 09/27/00 09:01 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? wsieber 09/27/00 09:06 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? RhubarbCommando 09/27/00 09:29 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? maverick 09/27/00 09:36 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? jmh 09/27/00 10:43 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Max Quordlepleen 09/27/00 07:57 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? tsuwm 09/27/00 08:22 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Max Quordlepleen 09/27/00 08:35 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Bridget 09/28/00 04:08 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? tsuwm 09/28/00 04:17 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? jmh 09/28/00 08:19 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? tsuwm 09/28/00 04:22 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Marty 09/28/00 09:08 PM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Bridget 10/01/00 09:54 AM Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? AnnaStrophic 09/27/00 11:55 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,361 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 727 guests, and 5 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 3 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,557 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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