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Definition of Teeny

1. Adjective. (used informally) very small. "A wee tot"

Definition of Teeny

1. a. Very small; tiny.

2. a. Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.

Definition of Teeny

1. Adjective. (informal) Very small; tiny. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Teeny

1. tiny [adj -NIER, -NIEST] - See also: tiny

Lexicographical Neighbors of Teeny

Literary usage of Teeny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"teeny-TINY Once upon a time there was a teeny- tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house ... Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny- tiny bonnet, ..."

2. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"teeny-TINY Once upon a time there was a teeny- tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house ... Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny- tiny bonnet, ..."

3. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1849)
"Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny- tiny walk. And when this teeny-tiny ..."

4. English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten (1890)
"teeny-Tiny ONCE upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house in ... Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, ..."

5. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"CHAPTER XIX teeny WEENY AND HIS COUSIN "Op course Old Mother Nature knows, but just the same it is hard for me not to believe that teeny Weeny is a ..."

6. Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and by Robert Hunt (1881)
"CORNISH teeny-TINY. MR HALLIWELL gives us, in his " Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales," the story of teeny-tiny. In this a little old woman takes a bone from ..."

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