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. )
Example Sentences
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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
On TV there’s teenage Batman, or at least Bruce Wayne, in the weeny form of Gotham’s David Mazouz.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2017
After teeny Herm and weeny Sark, Alderney felt like a metropolis.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2015
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
Think of having that secret all the evening, and not giving me the least teeny weeny atom of a hint, even!
From The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil
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
We’ll call up Jim and ask him to arbitrate, to tell us whether Washington is full of weenies or whether it is, in fact, actually cold.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2018
A classic strategy of the school bully is to make his enemies look, in comparison, like uptight weenies.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017
Then he finally says, ‘Wrong every time. I got me a job selling weenies.’
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
But, Uncle Tom, Bunny has been sicker an' sicker, and won't eat anything but the very youngest, weeniest gum leaves, and Aunt Elizabeth says he's a hideous little beast.
From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke
But when he has to fight, there isn't a cowardly hair on him, not the teeniest, weeniest one.
From Mother West Wind's Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
The jaw-breakers here are the weeniest little things!
From A Little Question in Ladies' Rights by Parker Fillmore
Well, one day Mrs. Kitty was going to give a birthday party for the weeniest kitty.
From The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives by Elizabeth Strong Worthington
No, Sir, he didn't look the teeniest, weeniest bit afraid!
From The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
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