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[Opinions] Minette
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What middle name would you use?
What would you name a brother and a sister?

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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.
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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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Yikes, the meaning in French slang puzzled me. I never expected it to mean something like that.Anyway, I adore the middle name. Winston is very fitting and British Victorian sounding. Dimity sounds strange, along with the meaning. I'd replace it with Cecily / Cicely.
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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#FrenchI'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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