ming – Scots verb conjugation

Scots verb forms of ming

Infinitive

ming

Participles

Presentmingin
Pastmingt

Present

mings

Past

mingt

Verbs conjugated like ming

sairch, souder, flauchter, upstraucht, yammer, bauther, backspeir, backspeer, blikken, blether, daunton, breenge, scunner, superexpend, scrieve, scowder, scooder, disable, besmarten, souther, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Etymology

From Middle English mengen (“to mix”), mynge et al., from Old English mengan (“to mix”). In sense "to stink" probably derived from the specialized sheep-smearing sense. See: Old English 'mengan'.

Translations

  • stink, have a strong bad smell