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
“We don’t mind a few weeny adventures, do we, Aunt Sallie?”
From The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade by Laura Dent Crane
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
Makes you wonder whether, in the middle of the night, your dog suddenly mistook your bare toes for cocktail weenies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 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
There's a dressed crab—I behaved perfectly, I didn't touch it—and, if all three of you had the weeniest little bit less, there'd be enough for us all.
From The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna
Then each little Chuck would sit up very straight and not move the teeniest, weeniest bit, so that from a little distance they looked for all the world like tiny stumps.
From The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
Just the teeniest, weeniest, wee bite would be quite sufficient for him.
From A Melody in Silver by Keene Abbott
But there is the weeniest, teeniest chance, isn't there?
From The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
The jaw-breakers here are the weeniest little things!
From A Little Question in Ladies' Rights by Parker Fillmore
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