adjective. Over-fastidious , finicky (especially in eating); affectedly dainty or refined, mincing.
MINCY is a valid scrabble word .
humorous, derogatory . Impudent, cunning, or boldly flirtatious (used of a girl or young woman)
There’s only one way to spell nowadays— as one word . Even though this adverb evolved from the Middle English now adays, spelling it as more than one word today is a mistake. You shouldn’t write it as now a days, nowdays, nowaday, or any other spelling: You can’t buy spirits if you’re a minor now a days .
dialectal. : overly particular or delicate he’s hard to cook for —so mincy about his food.
Yes , minx is in the scrabble dictionary.
Nowadays is colloquial , unlikely to be used in formal writing. At the present time is formal to the point of pomposity; I cannot conceive of any context in which at the present time should be preferred to one of the other expressions.
Nowadays is an adverb – Word Type.
No, ii is not in the scrabble dictionary .
The definition of a minx is a flirtatious and bold young woman . An example of a minx is a twenty year old woman asking her boss out for a date.
1 definition found From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: jinx n 1: a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him [syn: {jonah}, {jinx}] 2: an evil spell; “a witch put a curse on his whole family”; “he put the whammy on me” [syn: {hex}, {jinx}, {curse}, {whammy}] v 1: cast a spell over someone or something; put a ...
“Nowadays.” while standard English, has a colloquial ring. “ Today ” is preferred in academic writing. Academic writing requires a more elevated register, which the adverb “nowadays” does not meet.
| nowadays today | in this day and age currently | presently at the moment | at the present time now | contemporarily right now |
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| freshly newly | just only | lately latterly | now afresh | a moment ago anew |
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