weeny
Americannoun
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weenies
plural
adjective
adjective
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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
I'm not that keen on them when they're weeny; they don't do much.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012
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
It's absurd, of course, but I almost think I'm having a weeny little fit of the blues to-night—not dark-blue devils exactly—say, light-blue gnomes!
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd
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
Let’s just say that Windy Gap is not for weenies, with some rocky footing, sheer-and-skinny segments and — toward the top — a blistering sun that slings darts at your tender forehead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
Blevins and his wife, Jess, served cocktail weenies, and a friend brought homemade meatballs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2018
Unless he weenies out like he usually does and backs down.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
“With all his education, mind you. Selling weenies out on the street in the broad daylight.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
“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
No, I'm really not a bit tired," explained Arethusa, as she scrambled to her feet to start upstairs, "not the very weeniest bit.
From The Heart of Arethusa by Frances Barton Fox
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
Well, but what I meant to say is, the only weeniest speck of a fault I ever had to find with the Snowy—darling thing!—was that she was a little bit—just the tiniest winiest scrap—too serious.
From The Merryweathers by Julia Ward Richards
He knew all about those wonderful ears and how they heard the teeniest, weeniest noise when Hooty was flying at night.
From Mother West Wind "How" Stories by Harrison Cady
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