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Help[Opinions] Minette
https://www.behindthename.com/name/minette/submitted
Thoughts?
What middle name would you use?
What would you name a brother and a sister?
“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist – while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”
-Lori Greiner
Thoughts?
What middle name would you use?
What would you name a brother and a sister?
“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist – while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”
-Lori Greiner
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It sounds like a sweet name for a little cat. On a person it feels like a celebrity baby name, or a character from a popular novel written in 1830.
I'd combo it something like.... Minette Éloïse. Something fluffy and sentimental, like a faded romance paperback.
Lucy, Minette and Hugo is the subset that comes to mind.
I'd combo it something like.... Minette Éloïse. Something fluffy and sentimental, like a faded romance paperback.
Lucy, Minette and Hugo is the subset that comes to mind.
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I like it best as a middle name idea. But I think it is a very cute middle name idea.
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I think it makes a darling middle name or nickname, but it's too cute for a first name.
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Unfortunately, the very similar mineta is the Polish word for cunnilingus. Minette Léocadie ? Sister to Winston and Dimity?
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That's a little bit funny
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According to wiktionary, "minette" also means that in French slang https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faire_minette#French
I'm of the opinion that if a name works in the language and culture the child will be growing up in, it's fair game, but it may be worth keeping in mind that similar words refer to going down on someone in several languages (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minette#French) and people speaking them may have this association.
FWIW I think it's a nice sounding word and if it didn't immediately bring this 18+ imagery to my mind I would probably find it to be one of the more tolerable -ette names.
I'm of the opinion that if a name works in the language and culture the child will be growing up in, it's fair game, but it may be worth keeping in mind that similar words refer to going down on someone in several languages (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minette#French) and people speaking them may have this association.
FWIW I think it's a nice sounding word and if it didn't immediately bring this 18+ imagery to my mind I would probably find it to be one of the more tolerable -ette names.
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I don’t hate it, but given that min- often means “small” and that -“ette” also means small, it feels a bit strange and redundant. It’s like the pretty version of naming somebody Tinylittle. It has an objectively nice sound, but it does feel a bit nicknamey, since -ette was usually added to other standalone names as a form of endearment. So that enhances the artificially childlike feel, like maybe Minette’s parents didn’t want her to grow up.
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