| 释义 |
mennom dial.|ˈmɛnəm|
Forms: 7–8 minum, 7–9 minim, 8 menin, 8–9 mennin, 9 mennom, -on, -im, -um, -am, etc. (see E.D.D.)
[? A corruption of minnow, due to association with minim.]
= minnow.
1654Fuller Ephemeris Pref. 7 Minums will get through the holes thereof [sc. a drag-net]. 1674Ray Collect. Words, Fresh-water Fish 111 The Minow, Minim or Pink. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 251 A great number of little fish called minums or pinks. 1806in Archæologia XV. 352 note, The minnow still called..‘mennom’ in the north of England. a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 76 Up frae the mennon to the whale. 1838Haliburton Clockm. Ser. ii. xix. 294 Little ponds never hold big fish; there is nothing but pollywogs, tadpoles, and minims in them. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Mennim, Mennam, Menowm, Mennem. 1904Spectator 28 May 847/2 Minnow, pink,..meaker, menot, minim, peer,..and minnin are all synonymous.
attrib.1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. iii, The saughtree shades the menin pool. |