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Re: Carolyn Hax: Guest Banned
By: Star Wars Fan Date: September 17, 2019, 2:11 am
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[quote author=MinMom3 link=topic=1328.msg38809#msg38809
date=1568681960]
I think the LW's wife sounds snooty and disparaging and mingy
and super unpleasant. I would not be at all surprised to learn
that the hosting pair were younger, and the visiting pair were
older and more established, and the visiting wife thought it her
duty to 'enlighten' her hostess. I could easily be VERY wrong
in my assumptions, but that's the way it came off to me. There
were so many lighter ways to thank the hosting pair that didn't
involve a laundry list of 'you done fucked up'.... Now there's
a rift between the brothers that could easily have been avoided.
Just because LW is willing to put up with that attitude doesn't
mean his brother is.
My mother could have sent that letter, and did similarly stern
chastising in the past. Small wonder that none of her family's
side but me and my daughters were speaking to her by the time
she died!
[/quote]
What does "mingy" mean?
Ed.
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Re: Carolyn Hax: Guest Banned
By: Aleko Date: September 17, 2019, 2:29 am
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[quote]What does "mingy" mean?[/quote]
I'm interested to know that too. Where I come from it's a
portmanteau word made up of 'miserable+stingy'; but it may well
mean something else where MM3 lives!
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Re: Carolyn Hax: Guest Banned
By: bopper Date: September 18, 2019, 10:12 am
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mingy = mean and stingy.
"you've been too mingy with the sunscreen"
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Re: Carolyn Hax: Guest Banned
By: MinMom3 Date: September 18, 2019, 7:49 pm
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=1328.msg38820#msg38820
date=1568705351]
[quote]What does "mingy" mean?[/quote]
I'm interested to know that too. Where I come from it's a
portmanteau word made up of 'miserable+stingy'; but it may well
mean something else where MM3 lives!
[/quote]
Nope, that is EXACTLY how I meant it.
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Re: Carolyn Hax: Guest Banned
By: peony Date: September 19, 2019, 10:24 pm
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[quote author=MinMom3 link=topic=1328.msg38809#msg38809
date=1568681960]
I think the LW's wife sounds snooty and disparaging and mingy
and super unpleasant. I would not be at all surprised to learn
that the hosting pair were younger, and the visiting pair were
older and more established, and the visiting wife thought it her
duty to 'enlighten' her hostess. I could easily be VERY wrong
in my assumptions, but that's the way it came off to me. There
were so many lighter ways to thank the hosting pair that didn't
involve a laundry list of 'you done fucked up'.... Now there's
a rift between the brothers that could easily have been avoided.
Just because LW is willing to put up with that attitude doesn't
mean his brother is.
My mother could have sent that letter, and did similarly stern
chastising in the past. Small wonder that none of her family's
side but me and my daughters were speaking to her by the time
she died!
[/quote]
I used to have a friend like that (an ex-friend). She and her
husband felt it was their duty to enlighten ignorant me as to
how to hang my bath tissue, how to sort my mail, and dozens of
other things that felt like little constant jabs all the while
they visited me. Never mind I was in my forties, had been
married twice, and had been living independently for some time.
Their joint attitude was a strong contributor to the eventual
death of the friendship. I finally figured out that teacher or
guide-mode was their primary way of interacting with others
socially, which allowed me to release some of my irritation--but
not all. Since then, if any adult feels the need to start
instructing me on how to do simple things, I back away from
them. I don't want to allow that type of personality into my
life (or my home) again.
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Re: Carolyn Hax: Guest Banned
By: Star Wars Fan Date: September 19, 2019, 11:40 pm
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[quote author=bopper link=topic=1328.msg38867#msg38867
date=1568819542]
mingy = mean and stingy.
"you've been too mingy with the sunscreen"
[/quote]
OK thanks, I've absolutely never seen or heard the word before
so I think it sounds kind of odd. Would it be pronounced with a
"J" sound on the "G" in the word or is the "G" pronounced as in
the word great?
Ed.
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Re: Carolyn Hax: Guest Banned
By: Aleko Date: September 20, 2019, 1:43 am
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It's a soft G (= a J sound), as in stingy, grungy, mangy.
I couldn't be sure MM3 and I both understood the same way: as
well as mingy, in British slang we also have a (presumably
unrelated?) word, minge, which means a woman's pubic hair. I was
pretty confident that MM3 didn't mean that! - but where there
are two meanings for a word there can easily be three.
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