tweeny
Americannoun
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informal a maid who assists both cook and housemaid
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Also: tweenie. informal
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a child of approximately eight to fourteen years of age
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( as modifier )
tweeny magazines
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Origin of tweeny
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“Owl” sets itself apart from other tweeny series with its robust L.G.B.T.Q. representation and its zippy, self-aware jokes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
He’s also a really interesting person under all the hair and tweeny angst, and he’s as tired of being told what to do as I am of telling.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2021
Then had been granted a seventh-heaven glimpse of what love, real love, can be, to the tweeny maid, changing her into a veritable spitfire, who had turned and rent the fox-faced youth.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest
Or will she become a kitchen-maid or "tweeny" in King Arthur's Castle?
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Confronted by Damaris with a riding-whip in one hand, a special license in the other, and Wellington at her heels, the fox-faced young man had professed a desire to marry the tweeny on the spot.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest
This awesome demographic of tweenies, Twilight moms and Twihard emo boys is an audience and a marketing machine in one.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012
The queue for Joe McElderry was comparable to that of a Hollywood heartthrob, with hundreds of hormone-induced tweenies vying for a chance for a meet and greet with the X Factor superstar.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2012
Yet self-defining consumer tastes weren't Miley's only gift to the tweenies, or even the most important one.
From The Guardian ● May 4, 2010
Machin saw herself at the head of a troup of sub-parlourmaids and housemaids and tweenies, and foretold that she would stand no nonsense from butlers.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
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