Crossword clues for eeny
eeny
- Selection word
- Counting rhyme start
- Word heard in the choosing process
- Counting-out start
- Choosing rhyme start
- Chooser's nonsense word
- Chooser's first word
- Start of a selection ritual
- Start of a children's counting rhyme
- One of a few choice parts?
- It stands for 1
- Counting rhyme word
- Count-starting word
- Count starting word
- "__ ... moe"
- Word standing for "one"
- Word in a counting-out rhyme
- Word in a counting-down rhyme
- Word in a counting rhyme
- Tot's choosing word
- The first one pointed to?
- Start of some counts
- Start of choosing verse
- Start of a rhyme about a tiger
- Start of a kiddie count
- Start of a decision-making rhyme
- Start of a counting-out process
- Start of a choosing-up routine
- Selection process word
- Recess rhyme starter
- Random selection process start
- Playground rhyme starter
- One of a few "choice" words
- First word of a kids' rhyme that ends with "moe"
- First word of a kids' rhyme
- First word in a counting rhyme
- Counting-rhyme kickoff
- Counting rhyme opener
- Counter's word
- Count-out start
- Count-off word
- Choice chant starter
- Children's rhyme starter
- Child's counting word
- Beginning of a countdown
- Start of a child's rhyme
- One of a few "choice" parts
- Counting-out word
- Start of a children's rhyme
- Start of a counting rhyme
- Part of a choosing-up routine
- Counter's opening
- Start of a counting-out rhyme
- Counting-out starter
- Counting-out rhyme starter
- Start of a selection process
- Chooser's start
- Counting-out bit
- First to be counted?
- Counter's start
- Start of a decision-making process
- "___ meeny miney mo"
- Start of a kid's counting rhyme
- "___, meeny, miney, mo"
- Choice word?
- Start of some choice words?
- Start of a playground rhyme
- Choosing-up word
- Word of choice
- Start of a choosing rhyme
- Start of a count-off
- Kids' rhyme starter
- "___, meeny, miney, mo ..."
- Child's rhyme word
- Start of a counting-out refrain
- Tot's counting word
- ___, meeny, . . .
- Counting word
- Start of a chooser's rhyme
- Three less than mo?
- Word in a counting game
- Start of a count-out
- "___ Meeny Miney Mo": 1935
- Before meeny
- Wee, informally
- Countdown starter
- Choosing word
- Counting-rhyme starter
- Choosing rhyme starter
- Start of a few choice words?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a word from a popular children's counting-out rhyme, recorded in the form eeny, meeny, miny, mo by 1888, when it was listed among 862 "Rhymes and doggerels for counting out" in Henry Carrington Bolton's book "The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children" [New York]. Bolton describes it as "the favorite with American children, actually reported from nearly every State in the Union." He notes similar forms in notes similar forms in German (Ene, meni, mino), Dutch, and and Platt-Deutsch (Ene, mine, mike, maken), and, from Cornwall, Eena, meena, moina, mite. The form eeny meeny mony mi is recorded in U.S. from 1873, and Hanna, mana, mona, mike is said to have been used in New York in 1815.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. (context informal English) minuscule adv. (context informal English) In a very small way. Etymology 2
a. (context British dialect English) holey, cellular. Etymology 3
a. (eye dialect of any English) adv. 1 (context dialect English) With most, almost 2 (context dialect English) Only
Usage examples of "eeny".
Eeny could not find words enough to express her enthusiastic rapture at such a miracle of babydom, and kissed Master Reginald into an angry fit of crying.
They overflew the black and yellow chevrons ten minutes later and she circled, mentally chanting Lars' choosing rhyme - eeny meeny - as she looked for the landmarks he'd told her marked the exact location of the black crystal.