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weeny

[wee-nee] / ˈwi ni /


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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

"But it's such a weeny bed," said Hec, "was zour little girl no bigger than zat little dolly, Cousin Magdalen?"

From Hoodie by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer

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

He gets cocktail weenies, now, for a snack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2020

Blevins and his wife, Jess, served cocktail weenies, and a friend brought homemade meatballs.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 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 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

Big as he is, he can walk without making the teeniest, weeniest sound.

From The Adventures of Buster Bear by Harrison Cady

Just the teeniest, weeniest, wee bite would be quite sufficient for him.

From A Melody in Silver by Keene Abbott

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

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


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