teensy-weensy

See also: teensy weensy

English

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• teensy weensy

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Adjective

teensy-weensy (superlative teensy-weeniest)

1. (colloquial, often childish or humorous) Alternative form of teeny-weeny
   • 1872, Gail Hamilton, “Our Nan and her dumb friend”, in J.T. Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, editors, Our Young Folks, an illustrated magazine for boys and girls‎^[1], volume 8, page 411:

     ... Rose was no longer a funny teensy-weensy of an infant pig, but was now a half-grown, solid, fat porker ...

   • 1900, Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, The queen's garden‎^[2], page 63:

     And there was a big-bellied jar in which the Queen's Henchman used to hide, and spring up at her, and frighten her, when she was but a teensy-weensy Princess like you.