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Date: 1400-1500
Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old English mynwe

minnow

 noun
     
Related topics: Fish
min‧now [countable]
1HBF a very small fish that lives in rivers and lakes
2 an organization or company that is small and unimportant:
one of the minnows of the computer industry
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