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teeny

[ tee-nee ]

adjective

, tee·ni·er, tee·ni·est.


teeny

/ ˈtiːnɪ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    extremely small; tiny Alsoteeny-weenyˈtiːnɪˈwiːnɪteensy-weensyˈtiːnzɪˈwiːnzɪ
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of teeny1

1815–25; blend of tiny and wee
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Word History and Origins

Origin of teeny1

C19: variant of tiny
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Example Sentences

Since 2006, Bruce Peterjohn has slipped teeny-tiny aluminum rings on the little toothpick legs of more than 3,000 hummingbirds.

This teeny planet pushes the limit of what telescopes like OGLE can do, says Mróz.

They might be a massive buyer of advertising, but marketing is a teeny, tiny part of a big company’s organization.

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Fires also open up clearings, letting sunlight reach teeny trees so they can grow.

Keefe also discovered that front-burrowing frogs have a distinct “teardrop” shape with a teeny head and a big body.

But building 20-foot sculptures out of teeny-tiny Lego bricks can be as tedious as it sounds.

This time, the teeny bopper is Alison Gold, who is forced to sing “Chinese Food.”

Because of the nature of the app—and the teeny, twangy language it employs—Lulu unsurprisingly targets girls on college campuses.

And with that, a tray of teeny-tiny chocolate-covered ice-cream cones went round the room.

Even in a teeny-tiny online literary magazine, the editor gets five times as many good pieces as she can use.

My father is Irish, and if you want to see him get up and strut give him a teeny opening to enlarge on his race.

See that big one away up in that perch holding a little teeny, tiny one in its arms just as a woman holds a baby!

She set a teeny vase in the middle of the table, with two violets in it, and she put dolly table napkins at each place.

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.

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