different between tweeny vs weeny

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).

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?ni

Etymology 1

Possibly imitative from teeny weeny, or from wee + -y

Adjective

weeny (comparative weenier, superlative weeniest)

1. Minuscule.

Etymology 2

From German wiener (“of Vienna”)

Noun

weeny (plural weenies)

1. A wiener, a hot dog.
2. (slang) A penis, from the resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny weeny

Anagrams

• yewen