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weeny

[ wee-nee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural wee·nies.

, wee·ni·er, wee·ni·est.

weeny

/ ˈwiːnɪ; ˈwiːnzɪ /

Origin of weeny¹

First recorded in 1780–90; from wee ( def ), patterned after teeny ( def )

Origin of weeny¹

C18: from wee ¹with the ending -ny as in tiny

He jumps onto weeny little babies and feeble old women and—and horses.

They went to live in a weeny-teeny little yellow house in Bolingbroke.

Out of a little, teeny-weeny remnant of truth, shed build a magnificent divorce case.

“Lots of people in New York have to live in little teny, weeny rooms, Albertina,” she would say.

Another man sees a leprechaun walking up to him—'a weeny deeny dawny little atomy of an idea of a small taste of a gentleman.'

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