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TEENY (teenier, teeniest)

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: teenier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, teeniest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does teeny mean? 

TEENY (adjective)
  The adjective TEENY has 1 sense:

1. (used informally) very smallplay

  Familiarity information: TEENY used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TEENY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: teenier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: teeniest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

(used informally) very small

Synonyms:

bittie; bitty; itsy-bitsy; itty-bitty; teensy; teensy-weensy; teentsy; teeny; teeny-weeny; wee; weensy; weeny

Context example:

a wee tot

Similar:

little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)


 Context examples 


An’ wasn’t it a week later that the poor little ladies was put ashore on the other side of the island, with nothin’ before ’em but to walk home acrost the mountains on their weeny-teeny little straw sandals which wouldn’t hang together a mile?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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