teensy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of teensy
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A teensy stretch of trading weakness this year—a pause in rip-roaring gains, really—has left the valuation looking ordinary, despite a profit outlook that has no equal in history.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Pet stores stock many of the supplies needed to do this—but they also sell teensy enclosures that they claim your crab “will feel perfectly at home in.”
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
As for the ethical implications of all this, it seems that the district board had a teensy ethical issue of its own when it made the referral to the inspector general.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
They look like two little waterfalls of hair, with a pink and a blue ribbon tied in a teensy pigtail on top of their heads.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
This was simulated sediment, imported from France and composed of exactingly milled plastic pellets—teensy, half-millimetre-wide pellets for large grains of sand and even teensier ones to represent finer particles.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
The animals, which grow to barely over an inch long, are even teensier when born.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2019
The existence of theoretical lane violations is the teensiest gripe in a flea circus of grievances.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
“I am the teensiest bit disappointed that my first — but surely not last — visit did not yield a Hawaiian Punch, but maybe if I ask verrrry nicely next time I will get it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
Nothing, from the set design to the wardrobe choices to the teensiest snatches of dialogue, is unplanned or unconsidered.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2014
An exemplary music documentary, this explored both the track's social and political context, and the teensiest details of its making.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2012
It didn’t change their minds even the teensiest bit, though.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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