Chester Draws, in a parallel universe

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Somewhere this week on MN, I've seen someone write about 'the luck of the drawer' - which still makes sense, as if there's a huge chest of many, many drawers & you have to pick one to open, without knowing what's inside any of them.

Defiantly.

Both are correct. They are variations of the same phrase.

Lots of champ lines for sale in my area !

For all intensive purposes.

Sorry, didn't mean to quote!

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Springy platform things you jump on?

The -er can come from somewhere else/not be part of a verb e.g. "other", there's no "othing".

Exactly. 'Minging' is an inflected form of the verb 'to ming'.

Lots of adjectives end in 'ing' that are also the present continuous form if the verb:

Interesting, boring, freezing, surprising, maddening, sickening...

these words can be adjectives or verbs.

Other?? That has no relation to anything being discussed here. In this context, a minger is a person who mings (to ming: to be ugly), in the same pattern as singer (a person who sings), a whinger (a person who whinges), etc. All these words are derived from verbs. I thought the friend who said 'mingen' was very strange. Now I see a lot of people are similarly muddled...

Yes. My point is @skilpadde doesn't seem to realise minging is an adjective that is derived from the verb 'to ming'. A singing bird, a minging bird, etc.

@BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn you got it !!
Champ line is a trampoline !
Lots for sale here if anyone wants one ?

I always get peasant and pheasant mixed up. We booked into a fancy hotel once and I warmly told a friend there were ‘peasants roaming the grounds freely’ 😅

I was replying only because you suggested your friend was wrong in thinking that minging is an adjective.

It is an adjective… one that’s used frequently in Scotland, so your friend was not wrong.

You’ve then gone on to say that I don’t “seem to realise that minging is an adjective that is derived from the verb 'to ming'”.

But we weren’t discussing the origins of minging, only that it is actually a valid adjective. Hopefully, you didn’t tell your friend that he was wrong.

TBH "mingen" just makes me want to conjugate ming as an Old English verb. The present subjunctive plural of "mingan", at a guess.

If they were to ming…

My favourite is 'wallah' (voila)

A minging bird! 🤣

Anyways, this whole discussion arose because you asserted that your friend was wrong for thinking that "minging" is an adjective.
They weren't: it is.

Right, the point of the post was that by thinking the word was 'mingen', my friend was clearly not recognising that minging was derived from a verb. Yes, in the form 'minging' it's an adjective, but it's a verb taking an adjectival form by use of the suffix '-ing' with the verb 'to ming'.

Were they pleasant peasants, or revolting ones?

@GBoucher maybe your friend was saying "mingin" not "mingen"?

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minging

Where I am it is said "mingin" - you don't hear the "g".

That's true for my original accent too (I moved to the southeast and instinctively modified it) — it sounds somehow fussy with an -ng. And I think if I push my accent to its least southernified form, it comes out as "urgh that's fucken mingehhn".

She wrote it.

And also pronounced it to rhyme with sodden, trodden, heathen, not with walkin', talkin'.