different between teeny vs tweeny

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?twi?ni/

Etymology 1

From 'tween +? -y.

Noun

tweeny (plural tweenies)

1. (tennis) A shot played between the legs; a tweener.
2. (now historical) A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.
   • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 540:

     ‘You subscribed,’ Valentine said, ‘to purchase his library and presented it to his wife…who had nothing to eat but what my wages as a tweeny maid got for her.’

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 259:

     Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.

Etymology 2

From tween +? -y.

Adjective

tweeny (comparative more tweeny, superlative most tweeny)

1. Characteristic of a typical tween (a child not quite old enough to be a teenager).