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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
meanie
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You meany!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Their fathers allow them to watch it because fathers want to be pals, not meanies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
meanie

also meany, "cruel person," 1927, from mean (adj.) + -y (3).

Wiktionary
meanie

alt. (context informal English) A mean person. n. (context informal English) A mean person.

WordNet
meanie

n. a person of mean disposition [syn: meany, unkind person]

Wikipedia
Meanie

Meanie may refer to:

  • Meanies, a brand of stuffed toys
  • Meanie (snack), a brand of snack food
  • Meanie, a childish insult describing a mean person, eg "You're a rotten meanie!"

Usage examples of "meanie".

There was a mechanical roar of outrage as the Meanie went through the Haskell Hollow, a few licks away, and minutes later the wretched thing came into view around the bend, bellowing in agony and trailing dark smoke like a squid under attack.

Literally standing up on the throttle now, Snaker slammed his ass down on the seat and back up again, and Blue Meanie shrieked and settled down to the climb.

The slope is nowhere near as sharp as the back leg of the Haskell Hollow, but it goes on forever, and in snow season better vehicles than the Meanie have had to give up halfway, slide back down backwards and take a second run at it.

The Meanie spun off the road to the left, rotating as it went, and came to rest, nose out, precisely in the truck-sized carpark that had been shoveled out for it, its rear wheels nestled right up against the log barrier.

Blue Meanie dwindled in the dark, roaring at both ends, like a flatulent lion.

Halfway through the pot, I heard the Blue Meanie approaching from the east.

Jobs had traveled for a while in the company of a Blue Meanie named Four Sacred Streams.

Jobs and Violet did okay with that one Meanie back at the Tower of Babel.

Mostly they missed, but when they hit a Blue Meanie the result was shattering.

Maybe it had been aiming at a Meanie, but the shot, the tongue of liquefied stone, hit the end of a mainmast yard.

Then screams of pain and rage and the heavy tread of the Blue Meanie chasing down the stairs after them.

This time Jobs saw the Meanie turn and raise one front leg or hand or whatever it was.

Suddenly the Meanie reared up, not standing on its hind legs, but seeming to lengthen its front legs to bare the oval panel on its chest.

The Blue Meanie pressed forward, pushing now against the sheer physical weight of a howling mob.

He saw the Blue Meanie, far away now, ascending the ruined wall of the node.