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weeny

[wee-nee]Informal.
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noun, plural wee·nies.

weenie.

adjective, wee·ni·er, wee·ni·est.

tiny; very small: Give me just the weeniest little piece, please.

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weenie

or wee·ny, wie·nie

[wee-nee]

noun

Informal. a wiener.
Slang. penis.
Slang. an insignificant, disliked person.

Origin of weenie

wien(er) + -ie; (def 3) probably influenced by or continuous with weeny small child, noun use of weeny tiny (see wee, teeny-weeny)
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Examples from the Web for weeny

Historical Examples of weeny

  • I wonder what he would do if I gave him just a teeny, weeny touch with the whip!

  • When she was a tiny, weeny thing she was always crying and fretful.

    Our Bessie

    Rosa Nouchette Carey

  • Every teeny, weeny act, no matter what it is, affects somebody else.

    Blacky the Crow

    Thornton W. Burgess

  • I just peeped in and it looked so good I thought I'd take just a weeny taste.

    Anne Of Avonlea

    Lucy Maud Montgomery

  • And she gave him a bill, only it was a teeny, weeny bill and it was short.

British Dictionary definitions for weeny

weeny

weensy (ˈwiːnzɪ)

adjective -nier, -niest, -sier or -siest

informal very small; tiny

Word Origin for weeny

C18: from wee 1 with the ending -ny as in tiny
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for weeny

weenie

n.

"frankfurter," 1906, with slang sense of "penis" following soon after, from German wienerwurst "Vienna sausage" (see wiener). Meaning "ineffectual person" is 1963; pejorative sense via penis shape, or perhaps from weenie in the sense of "small" (see wee).

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