meanie

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meanie

  • /ˈmiːni/

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From mean + -ie.

noun meanies · meany

  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.

    Similar: baddie

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noun unkind person

Españolduende, arpía
日本語意地悪 ijiwaru
हिन्दीचांडाल cāṇḍāl
DeutschFiesling
Русскийзлю́ка zljúka

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@misc{meanie_2026,
  title = {meanie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/meanie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}