mignon
Plural: mignons
Adj
- Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.
Noun
- A small, tender cut of meat, often beef.
- A cute or pretty person; a dandy; a pretty child.
- One of the court favourites of Henry III of France.
Examples
- He treated his opponent to a mignon steak after losing the Words With Friends game badly.
Origin / Etymology
From French mignon, from Middle French mignon (“lover, darling, favourite”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnjo (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German minnja (“love, care, affection, desire, memory”), Old Saxon minnea (“love”). More at mind. Compare Dutch minnen (“to love”). Doublet of minion.
Synonyms
Jemmy-Jessamy, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, fopling, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
Scrabble Score: 9
mignon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmignon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mignon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary