weeny
Americannoun
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weenies
plural
adjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of weeny
First recorded in 1780–90; from wee ( def. ), patterned after teeny ( def. )
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Fields; Theodore Roosevelt, who undermines his Rough Rider persona with a weeny, high voice; and William Howard Taft exhibiting his native Ohio’s warmish “r’s” and open vowels.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
After teeny Herm and weeny Sark, Alderney felt like a metropolis.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2015
In practice it generally means that a weeny notion hopes to gain weight by attaching itself to a mighty abstract.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
Viola Davis, 46, elicited a positive response when she wore her TWA, or "teeny weeny Afro," as the look is known, on the red carpet at the 2012 Academy Awards.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2012
She got it catched one day, and she tied a very weeny, weeny ribbon under its wing, some way that it couldn't come undone, and then she let it go.
From The Boys and I by Mrs. Molesworth
He has tried to untangle the debate between bacon strips and bits, opined on the brilliance of weenies and eggs, and considered the beauty of a well-made flour tortilla.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
At the end of the day, Village is still occasionally a tough sit for weenies like me, but the fantastical richness of the world it’s set in helps to make the horror more tolerable.
From Slate ● May 7, 2021
There were fire pits and we would roast sand-covered weenies and marshmallows and play in the surf until we were all sunburned and exhausted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
Unless he weenies out like he usually does and backs down.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
Then they'd roast themselves like weenies on their towels until they were hot and sweating again, and then they'd go right back in.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
But there is the weeniest, teeniest chance, isn't there?
From The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Very, very slowly and carefully, so as not to make the teeniest, weeniest sound, Longlegs lifted one foot to wade out into the Smiling Pool.
From The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
No, Sir, he didn't look the teeniest, weeniest bit afraid!
From The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
Then without the teeniest, weeniest bit of noise, it floated back into the Lone Pine and with it went the plump chicken.
From Mother West Wind's Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
“I only use the weeniest little dab of rouge,” she declared, “and it is really necessary, because I want to get rid of the ‘pallor effect.’”
From Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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