Definitions for minikin

minikin min·i·kin

Spelling: [min-i-kin]
IPA: /ˈmɪn ɪ kɪn/

Minikin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in minikin (iiikmnn).

Definitions for minikin

noun

  1. a person or object that is delicate, dainty, or diminutive.
  2. a printing type (about 3½ point).

adjective

  1. delicate, dainty, or mincing.

Origin of minikin

1535-45; Middle Dutch minneken friend, lover, equivalent to minne love + -ken -kin

Examples for minikin

I explained that I had already put minikin in possession of all the facts.

"Felt sure somehow that he'd take a liking to you," answered minikin.

"No one like you quiet fellows for going it when you do begin," commented minikin.

She is no minikin Michael or Guy or Maurice, but a semblable moving figure.

Manikin and minikin is reprinted by special permission of Alfred Kreymborg.

It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.

That minikin shivering old man, that homunculus, that thing, master of Europe and the West?

The minikin man gave Timothy a glance of ineffable disdain, and left the room.

minikin, min′i-kin, n. a little darling: a small sort of pin: the treble string of a lute.

"Well, I should let her wait," replied minikin, replacing his eye.

Word Value for minikin
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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