mignon \min-YON\, adjective:
Small and pretty; delicately pretty.
And here Jasmin caressed his own arm, and made as if it were a baby's, smiling and speaking in a mignon voice, wagging his head roguishly.
-- William Chambers and Robert Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
As the village princeling and household cosset, the toast of the family, the mignon of the minions, the darling of the staff, my feelings about the proposed adoption would not be hard to divine.
-- Martin Amis, Success
Mignon stems from the French word of the same spelling which means "delicate" or "charming". It is also related to the word "minion" through the sense of "small".
牛排\分鐘，延亨默\，形容詞：
小而漂亮，精緻漂亮。
和茉莉在這裡愛撫自己的手臂，並就好像它是嬰兒的，面帶微笑，在牛排的聲音說，流裡流氣地搖他的頭。
- 威廉·錢伯斯和羅伯特·錢伯斯，錢伯斯的愛丁堡 -
村太子黨和家庭的寵兒，家庭的敬酒，牛排的爪牙，工作人員的寵兒，有關建議採納我的感情不會很難神聖。
- 馬丁·艾米斯，成功
米尼翁源於法語單詞拼寫相同，這意味著“精緻”或“迷人”。它也涉及到的“馬仔”，通過“小”的感覺。
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