different between teenty vs teeny

English

Etymology

• ten +? -ty

Perhaps from Old English hund-t?onti? (compare hund-seofonti?, hund-eahtati?, hund-ni?onti?, hund-endleofanti?, and hund-twelfti? for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.

Numeral

teenty

1. (nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
   • Krieger, Wendy (accessed 2008-09-15) , “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[1]

     Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.

Synonyms

• short hundred

Antonyms

• twelfty

Related terms

• eleventy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?ni/
• Rhymes: -i?ni

Etymology 1

From tiny.

Adjective

teeny (comparative teenier, superlative teeniest)

1. (informal) Very small; tiny.

Synonyms

• (very small):

  (standard): minuscule, minute, tiny

  (informal): teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, weeny, eeny

Translations

Etymology 2

From teen +? -y. See teen (“grief”).

Adjective

teeny (comparative more teeny, superlative most teeny)

1. (Britain, dialect) fretful; peevish; cross

Anagrams

• yente