minikinn.1adj.1
/ˈmɪnᵻkɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɪnᵻkɪn/ Now rare.
A. n.1† 2. More fully minikin pin. A kind of small pin; frequently used as the type of something having little or no value. Cf. sense A. 4. Obsolete.† 5. A small piece of wood for making matches. Obsolete. rare.† 6. Typography. A very small size of type usually measuring three points and used chiefly in printing music, and in the pointing of some non-Latin scripts. Obsolete.
1. A young girl or woman (usually as a term of endearment). Also: †a minion, a favourite (obsolete). Now rare.Sometimes with allusion to minikin n.2 1, as in quot. 1608.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
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mort1567
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piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
c1540 Image Ipocrysy i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 419/1 Your riche ringes,..Which your mynykyns And mynyon babbes,..When masse and all is done, Shall were at afternone.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Mignone, a minion, a fauorit, a dilling, a minikin, a darling.
1605 London Prodigall iii. iii. sig. E3 Minckins looke you doe not follow me.
1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. D2 You take your parts too low, you are trebble Courtiers, and will neuer agree with these Country Mynnikins.
1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια (1630) v. vi. sig. O3 Melan [to Musica]..Come, my little Minikin, thou and I will be play-fellowes.
1640 H. Glapthorne Hollander ii. sig. Civv Surely the Minikin is enamoured on me.
1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune v. i. 70 Sylv. Sir Jolly, ah, Sir Jolly, protect me or I'm ruin'd. Sir Jol. My little Minikin, is it thy squeek?
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Minnekin or Minks, a nice Dame, a mincing Lass.
1872 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 208/2 Dick..swore that if it were not for my towering head, my high heels, and trailing gown, I should be a minikin with whom no one would dance at the ball.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Minikin, a slight, delicate, affected girl—‘sich a minikin as 'er is’.
1957 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 20 611 The Taoist preoccupation with the ‘Eternal Feminine’, thus transforming a sexless ‘micromorph’ into a ‘microgyne,’ or a ‘minim’ into a dainty ‘minikin.’
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > pin
pina1275
middlings1543
minikin1574
corking-pin?1690
lill1882
1574 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 444 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 To the cater for xliill. hoppes, xvijs. vjd: for j dd. mynnykyns, iij s: inckle, jd. etc.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Minnekins, the smallest sort of Pins, us'd by Women for their Clothes.
1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 57 Minnikin Pins, or small Pins.
1758 A. Murphy Upholsterer ii. 33 Who knows him, or cares a minikin Pin about him?
1834 J. S. Knowles Beggar of Bethnal-Green iii. i. 93 Good master Small!—Factor of minikins And corking-pins—of pins of all degrees!
1843 T. Hood Drop of Gin iii No prospect in life worth a minnikin pin.
1853 J. Capper in Househ. Words 3 Sept. 18/2 From..chain-cables down to minnikin-pins.
1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 235 [An] apprentice..with haply a provident row of minikins darned with precision on his sleeve.
1886 J. O. Halliwell Nursery Rhymes 231 Jack in the pulpit, out and in; Sold his wife for a minikin pin.
1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2775/2 A small kind of pin is sometimes called a minikin.
3. A small or insignificant person. Also in extended use. Now rare.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person
dwarfeOE
congeonc1230
go-by-ground?a1300
smalla1300
shrimpc1386
griga1400
gruba1400
murche1440
nirvil1440
mitinga1450
witherling1528
wretchocka1529
elf1530
hop-o'-my-thumb1530
pygmy1533
little person1538
manikin1540
mankin1552
dandiprat1556
yrle1568
grundy1570
Jack Sprat1570
squall1570
manling1573
Tom Thumb1579
pinka1585
squib1586
screaling1594
giant-dwarf1598
twattle1598
agate1600
minimus1600
cock sparrow1602
dapperling1611
modicum1611
scrub1611
sesquipedalian1615
dwarflinga1618
wretchcock1641
homuncio1643
whip-handle1653
homuncule1656
whippersnapper1674
chitterling1675
sprite1684
carliea1689
urling1691
wirling1691
dwarf man1699
poppet1699
durgan1706
short-arse1706
tomtit1706
Lilliputian1726
wallydraigle1736
midge1757
minikin1761
squeeze-crab1785
minimum1796
niff-naff1808
titman1818
teetotum1822
squita1825
cradden1825
nyaff1825
weed1825
pinkeen1850
fingerling1864
Lilliput1867
thumbling1867
midget1869
inch1884
shorty1888
titch1888
skimpling1890
stub1890
scrap1898
pygmoid1922
lofty1933
peewee1935
smidgen1952
pint-size1954
pint-sized1973
munchkin1974
1761 G. Colman in St. James's Chron. 18 June 1/1 A Make-weight in the Scale of Mortality; a Minim of Nature; a Mannikin, not to say Minnikin.
1804 J. Wolcot Epist. to Ld. Mayor in Wks. (1816) IV. 278 I shall suppose, That Addington's invet'rate foes Impede this honest scheme of thine. Then take this minikin of mine.
1808 E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 166 A son—a very minnikin indeed.
1808 E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 168 Le pauvre petit garçon, the fiddler's minnikin.
1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 205 The towering foxgloves are at their peak, as are yellow columbines, delicate dancing minikins that seem to disavow any connection with their stems.
4. A small or insignificant amount of something; a jot, a shred. Now British regional.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount
speckc725
littleOE
somethingc1200
lutewihtc1230
little whatc1384
ouncec1387
lap1393
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spota1413
tinec1420
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mouthful?c1450
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halfpennyworth1533
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dram1566
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trickle1580
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flash1614
dasha1616
pipa1616
pickle1629
drachm1635
cue1654
smack1693
starn1720
bit1753
kenning1787
minikin1787
tate1805
starnie1808
sprat1815
harl1821
skerrick1825
smallums1828
huckleberry1832
scrimp1840
thimble1841
smite1843
nattering1859
sensation1859
spurt1859
pauchlea1870
mention1891
sketch1894
sputterings1894
scrappet1901
titch1937
tad1940
skosh1959
smattering1973
1787 Minor iv. viii. 232 I shan't advance a minikin beyond the truth.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 207 A request might she passe of him for a minnikin.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 192 Minnikin/minniken, the very least possible amount. ‘Well, jest a minnikin then’.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > slender piece for specific purpose
splintc1325
splinter1648
minikin1852
sticker1893
minik1899
1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 245/1 The large [match] splints or the second size called minnikins.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > height of type > names of type sizes
English1539
great primer1539
long primer1553
pica1553
brevier1598
nonpareil1656
pearl1656
small pica1657
minion1659
canon1683
small body1683
minim1706
paragon1706
bourgeois1755
diamond1778
ruby1778
Trafalgar1807
agate1831
minikinc1870
minionette1871
brilliant1875
gem1888
excelsior1902
c1870 V. & J. Figgins Illustr. Price List 3 Book and newspaper founts... Pearl. Diamond. Minikin.
c1870 V. & J. Figgins Illustr. Price List (heading) Semi-nonpareil or minikin music.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 83 Minnikin, a size of type smaller than Brilliant, and a fourth of Pica in body only.
1902 T. L. De Vinne Pract. Typogr. ii. 68 Excelsior, or 3-point..seems to be the same body as the English ‘minikin’.
1916 L. A. Legros & J. C. Grant Typographical Printing Surfaces 58 Some..sizes..were made by some founders and not by others. Of these, minikin, or excelsior, by which name it is known in America, is used for split fractions in mathematical work and..in the setting-up of musical matter.
B. adj.1
1. † a. Originally, of a girl or woman: dainty, elegant, sprightly. In later use, applied to both sexes: affected, mincing, or (of a man) effeminate. Also in reduplicated compounds, as minikin-finical, minikin-finikin adjs. Obsolete.In quot. 1545: delicate, having a woman's daintiness.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting delicacy
minikin1545
mincing1560
miniard1584
finical1592
minic1598
nice-mouthed1618
finitive1640
finicking1661
minical1668
precious1712
précieuse1785
niminy-piminy1786
pershittie1808
miminy-piminy1815
finicky1825
nimpy-pimpy1825
niminy1878
too-tooa1884
piminy1890
précieux1891
piss-elegant1941
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > delicate or dainty
finea1375
dely?c1400
delicate?a1425
minionate1496
minion1528
minion1529
gingerly1534
daintyc1540
minikin1545
daint1590
inconyc1592
minic1598
delicated1605
minical1668
finickingc1749
minionette1749
dinky1788
daintified1834
airy-fairy1837
mignon1837
minny1942
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective] > over-refined
minikin1545
porcelaina1643
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 10v The minstrelsie of lutes, pipes, harpes, and all other that standeth by suche nice, fine, minikin fingering..is farre more fitte for the womannishnesse of it to dwell in the courte among ladies.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 9 The credit..of mistris, to minnekin nan.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A daintie lasse, a minnikin smirking wench.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxix. vi. 1026 Then came up the maner of having at bankets singing miniken wenches, and such as could play upon the dulcimers.
1696 T. Tryon Misc. iv. 121 Fare..such as the Proud Wives and Miniking Daughters would scarce offer to their..Dogs.
1768 I. Bickerstaff Lionel & Clarissa i. iii. 9 A coxcomb, a fop..A minikin, Finiking, French powder-puff.
1871 U. Hawthorne in Passages from French & Ital. Note-bks. of Nathaniel Hawthorne II. 177 I wish I could put into..one sentence the pettiness, the miniken-finical effect of this little man.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 149 Minikin, delicate, effeminate. Frequently used in the phrase, ‘he's a minikin-finikin fellow’.
b. Trifling, petty. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > small or trifling in amount or degree
eathlyc890
littleOE
slender1530
foolish1533
triflinga1538
paltry1565
puny?1594
mean1599
minikin1617
unconsiderable1643
inconsiderable1648
punctilio1660
sneaking1703
insignificant1748
flimsy1756
peppercornish1762
peppercorn1791
microscopic1798
pindling1861
midget1879
diddly1893
scroddyc1909
chickenshit1934
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. x. 444 The Church is the better for beeing without them [sc. miracles], without sicke dogges healed, and lame cattes cured by your minikin-miracles, done at Minich.
1781 T. Twining Let. 19 Oct. (1991) I. 216 What have you and I to do with..the minikin duties of civility and bienséance?
1872 W. C. Russell Perplexity I. x. 190 None of your minnikin governess-schemes for me.
1977 P. Anderson Mirkheim xiv 147 ‘We got what we was after, ha?’ His tone was unlightened by the minikin victory.
2. Chiefly literary in later use. Of a person or thing: diminutive in size or form; miniature; tiny.Frequently used in expressions of affection. † minikin name n. Obsolete a pet name.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > small of its kind
demi1418
young1550
minikin1566
dwarf-like1582
diminutive1602
minitive?1602
diminute1611
pocket1621
Lilliputian1726
duodecimo1780
toy1821
minified1841
junior1860
toy-sized1861
Lilliput1867
toyish1871
mini1963
the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > pet name
minikin name1756
pet name1807
pet word1829
hypocorism1850
petit nom1867
hypocoristic1930
pet form1932
1566 L. Wager Life & Repentaunce Marie Magdalene sig. Biiiv Thou art welcome Cupiditie myne owne friend: What, myntkin carnall concupiscence, Thou art welcome heartily by my conscience.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 9 Euery cut-purse vseth them [sc. their words] at the Old Bayly, that hath had any skill in his miniken Handsaw.
1756 F. Brooke Old Maid No. 34. 201 Polly Instep, the dancing master's daughter, insists upon being called Pally, ‘because (says she)..it is the minikin name for Pallas’.
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 1 July (1778) I have adopted this method of making mix-grass and clover-hay. Let it lie a-while..; but while it is tough..make it into light minikin cocks.
1826 T. Hood Fairy Tale in Whims & Oddities 54 A little house some years ago there stood, A minikin abode.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iv. 176 They [sc. pastorals] are to poetry what charming little Dresden china figures are to sculpture: graceful, minikin, fantastic.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. v. 154 In the distance..the great walnut-trees have become dots, and the farmsteads, minikin as if they were the fairy-finest of models made to be packed in a box.
1938 ‘J. Struther’ Try Anything Twice 138 Against such minikin blossoms a drop of dew looks the size of a gazing-crystal.
1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. ii. 340 He..has to place her..under a powerful microscope in order to make out the tiny, though otherwise perfect, shape of his minikin sweetheart.
1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel viii. 27 In it [sc. the vanity box]..stood four minikin vases of Prussian-blue glass.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adverb] > with affected delicacy
fine1579
minikinly1580
mincingly1596
miniardly1653
finically1659
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb] > delicately or daintily
gingerly?1520
minionly1545
daintily1561
daintly1563
minikinly1580
delicately1587
incony?1602
dainty1610
airily1823
1580 Baret's Aluearie (rev. ed.) G 30 Galantly, gaily, minikinly [1574 minionly].
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. vi. 110 I think it a matter hard to..represent a Floure de Luce minikinly trussed, but by an excellent Painter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
minikinn.2adj.2
/ˈmɪnᵻkɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɪnᵻkɪn/ A. n.2† 2. In extended use: a high-pitched voice. Obsolete. rare.
1. † b. to tickle the minikin: to play the lute or viol. Obsolete.Frequently used humorously by early 17th cent. dramatists with allusive suggestion of minikin n.1 1.In quot. 1601 apparently used of a fiddle.
a. A thin strand of catgut used for the treble strings of a lute or viol. More fully minikin string. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > lute- or viol-type parts > [noun] > specific strings
minikin1541
bass1560
treble1560
mean1654
G string1831
cantino1876
1541 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 325 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 For ij dossen off lewte stringes callyd ‘menekyns’.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 2v In luting..a treble minikin string must alwayes be let down, but at suche time as when a man must nedes playe.
1580 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 81 ij knotes of menykinges, iiij d.
1636 T. Nabbes Tottenham Court II. iv. 22 If I forbeare my breakfast but two minutes longer, my guts will shrinke into minikins.
1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 64 Yet Servants knowing Minikin nor Base, Are still allow'd to fiddle with the Case.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 Mar. (1974) VIII. 119 Mr. Cæsar told me a pretty experiment of his, of Angling with a Minikin, a gut-string varnished over.
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 65 Be carefull to get Good Strings, which would be of three sorts, viz. Minikins, Venice-Catlins, and Lyons.
1721 C. King Brit. Merchant I. 284 Lutestrings Catlings..Minikings.
1910 F. W. Galpin Old Eng. Instruments of Mus. 43 They were all of gut, and the smaller, or ‘minnikins’, were very fragile and easily broken.
1976 Early Music 4 433/1 More uniform treble strings were available from Munich from Capirola's time... They were called ‘minikins’ in England and were very expensive.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play lute or fiddle
to tickle the minikin1601
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A3 When I was a yong man and could tickle the Minikin,..I had the best stroke, the sweetest touch, but now..I am falne from the Fidle and betooke me to thee [sc. the Pipe].
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. H1v Perge mentiri. Tickle the next Minkin.
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) i. sig. B3 v Of which consort you two are grounds, one touches the Base, and the other tickles the minikin.
c1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother (1959) ii. i. 28 Thou dost tikle the minikin as nimbly.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > a high-pitched voice
minikin1602
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E3v Cast. Good, very good, very passing passing good. Fel. Fut, what trebble minikin squeaks there, ha? good? very good, very very good?
Of a voice: high, treble; shrill. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > shrill or forced
shrillc1386
shirl1418
straineda1542
treble1550
efforced1590
shrilly1594
minikin1602
stridulous1646
feigned1664
extended1699
pipy1769
falsetto1826
screechy1834
stridulent1874
roofy1897
taut1916
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H3v I had rather haue a seruant with a short nose, and a thinne haire, then haue such a high stretcht minikin voice.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiii. 39 For one blast of thy minikin mouth, thy sheepe shall take no harme. View more context for this quotation
Compounds
C1. Similative.
minikin-mildly adv.
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1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 14 And his voice, that out-roared Boanerges, How minikin-mildly it urges.
C2. † minikin tickler n. Obsolete rare a fiddler.
minikin gut n. rare catgut.
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1917 R. J. Godlee Lord Lister 231 Catgut... What is known in the trade as ‘minikin gut’.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler
fiddlera1100
gigoura1300
minikin tickler1607
scraper1611
gut-vexer1640
rosin-the-bow1767
fiddle1773
scrape-gut1837
bosh-man1846
bosh-faker1859
bosh-killer1935
1607 J. Marston What you Will iv. i A fiddler, a scraper, a miniken tickler, a pum, pum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
minikinn.3adj.3
/ˈmɪnᵻkɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɪnᵻkɪn/ A. n.3
Chiefly in plural. A type of plain-weave worsted baize used to make clothing in the 16th and 17th centuries. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > baize > types of
burelc1300
bure1585
minikin1594
green baize1758
bocking1759
orange-list1830
1594 in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Domest. Documents I. 221 There is another sort of Baies made at Coxall, Maidstone and some other places, which they call minikins.
1609 Rates Marchandizes sig. C2v Bayes called Minikins or Freezadoes.
1627–8 in A. P. Wadsworth & J. De Lacy Mann Cotton Trade & Industr. Lancs. i. 13 There had been made ‘whyte Kersays’ and ‘Ruggs and Minikins’, ‘ruggs’ being a ‘snagged Fryse’, and minikins ‘Cottons thinner and lesse milled than the other’.
1931 A. P. Wadsworth & J. De Lacy Mann Cotton Trade & Industr. Lancs. 13 Minikins were a kind of bay, and in 1594 had been made at Maidstone and a Coggeshall and other places in Essex; they were like ‘short Suffolk clothes, saving they are listed and cottoned lyke unto a Baie’.
1974 Victoria Hist. Kent III. 405 A cloth called manikins was made at Maidstone in 1563, ‘in length and breadth equal to short Suffolk cloth, save that they were afted and cottoned like bays’.
Designating or made from minikins. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [adjective] > coarse
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1604 Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. I. 108 Vij yeards halfe of minikin bayste to make ye same gowne.
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie i. sig. C2 Steward this is as plaine as your olde minikin breeches.
1721 C. King Brit. Merchant II. 306 Bays (Double or Minikin) by the same Tariff.
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