Unscramble

m 3 i 1 n 1 i 1 o 1 n 1

6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a servile or fawning dependant

originFirst use appears c. 1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minjō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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