Definitions for minikins

minikins min·i·kin

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

Minikins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in minikins (iiikmnns).

Definitions for minikins

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 minikins

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

Examples for minikins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for minikins
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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