Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. fellatio.

1879		‘Nursery Rhymes’ in Pearl 4 Oct. 33: There is a new Baron of Wokingham; / The girls say he don’t care for poking ’em. / Preferring ‘Minette,’ / What is pleasant, but yet, / There is one disadvantage, his choking ’em.
1883		Pretty Women of Paris (1996) 80: In the meantime she indulges to excess in the pleasures of ‘minette’, but men, not women, frolic with her, and indulge in the game of soixante-neuf.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) I 201: She asked me if I had ever played at minette. I did not know what it meant. She told me it was having my prick sucked.

2. cunnilingus.

1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VIII 1583: ‘You’ve spent,’ said I getting up. ‘Yes - why, you’ve been pulling it about for an hour. ‘You like minette?’ ‘I’d sooner have a man and be what you call fooked - n’est-ce pas? But if a man plays minette nicely I can’t help having pleasure.’ With that she washed her cunt.
1893		Teleny (1995) 38: ‘Viens, mon chéri, fais minette à ton petit chat.’ As she said this I saw the black mass of hair part itself; two huge dark lips first appeared, then opened, and within those bugly lips - which inside had the colour and the look of stale butcher’s meat - I saw somthing like the tip of a dog’s penis when in a state of erection, protrude itself towards my lips. All my schoolfellows burst out laughing - why, I did not exactly understand; for I had not the slightest idea of what minette was, or what the old whore wanted of me...’.
1899		‘Donewell’ Green Girls 29: Devouring her with minettes and feuilles de rose.
1901		Suburban Souls (1995) III 387: We get in a cab. I discover that she is no longer a virgin, in spite of all the stuff she has recently told me. I had already my suspicions when I did minette to her in January.