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Answer for the clue "Count-off word ", 4 letters:
eeny

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Wiktionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in 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]. ...

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.