teeny-weeny
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of teeny-weeny
Example Sentences
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“A terabyte is, for most people, gigantic, yet a fragment of a human brain – just a miniscule, teeny-weeny little bit of human brain – is still thousands of terabytes.”
From Science Daily
“It is a teeny-weeny budget for what needs to be done,” Birnbaum said.
From Scientific American
“I haven’t written this essay in the hope that anybody will get out a violin for me, not even a teeny-weeny one,” she wrote.
From Fox News
It's a mystery, like those big heads on Easter Island or the popularity of the teeny-weeny knapsack.
From Literature
Those of us who fancy ourselves as purists about cinema can gripe all we like about films being diminished by the haste with which they have reached our teeny-weeny screens.
From The Guardian
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