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A working definition of 'ming'

Posted July 16, 2002 10:54 AM.

A word much used in the UK at the moment is 'ming'. Not the Chinese dynasty - and not the intergalactic warlord either. But it's a word that's in fairly common usage at the moment and it's also a word that has yet to hit America - which it may never do. And you'll never understand how funny Whorechalking is if you don't know about it:

ming Verb. To smell or look unpleasant. E.g."Oooh, mings in here! Who's farted?" [A dictionary of slang]

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