meinie
/ˈmeɪni/Now archaic and regional (chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern ))
noun
1More generally: a body of retainers, attendants, dependants, or followers; a retinue. Now archaic.
2A crowd of people; (depreciative ) a rabble.
Origin
Middle English (in an earlier sense). From Anglo-Norman maigné, mayné, meigné, meinée, mesnee, meyné and Old French mesnie, variants of Anglo-Norman maignede and Old French (Normandy) maisnede from an unrecorded post-classical Latin derivative of classical Latin mansiōn-, mansiō.