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meanie

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmiːni/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English mean English -ie English meanie From mean + -ie.

  1. A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.

    Teacher kept me in after school again. What a meanie!

    That meanie wouldn't even lend me the bus fare.

  2. A villain.

    If you like your wrestling rough, we've had besides such old and revered roughies as Lisowski, Schmidt, Herman, etc., some great new meanies.

    More energy for Bliss to pursue the depraved denizens of Gotham, the meanies who lurked in the shadows, who left the messes and spills he and his partner Ward were constantly cleaning up.