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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teeny
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
teeny weeny
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in reality, seat-side service is only feasible for those with teeny appetites and an inordinate amount of patience.
▪ Gritty steam engines, not teeny chips, hauled the world into the information age.
▪ In 1973, I was living in Dublin in a teeny bedsit with three other women.
▪ It's wood with a teeny metal bit at the end and red feathers.
▪ It is, after all, in their joint interest to seem at least a teeny bit above the fray.
▪ On this occasion, however, there was a teeny problem.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teeny

Teeny \Tee"ny\, a. Very small; tiny. [Colloq.]

Teeny

Teeny \Teen"y\, a. [See Teen grief.] Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
teeny

1825, alteration of tiny; teeny-tiny attested from 1867. Alternative form teensy is attested from 1899 (teensy-weensy is from 1906). Also teenty (1844).

Wiktionary
teeny

Etymology 1 a. (context informal English) Very small; tiny. Etymology 2

a. (context UK dialect English) fretful; peevish; cross

WordNet
teeny
  1. adj. (used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy]

  2. [also: teeniest, teenier]

Wikipedia
Teeny

Teeny can refer to:

  • A teenager or a " teenybopper"
  • The state of being very small
  • Trond Holter, a member of the band Wig Wam
  • A small drink sold in Massachusetts and New Hampshire stores composed of water, sugar, food coloring, and artificial flavoring packaged in a small plastic clear barrel-like bottle covered with tin foil (also spelled Teenie)

Usage examples of "teeny".

Any minute now, Luke and I will see our baby on the screen for the first time since it was just a teeny blob.

I must admit -- a brave if pastel-coloured floral show amidst the inclemency of the weather, and the flat dishes of the pale wild roses spill over with the raindrops that have collected upon them as the bushes shudder in the reverberations of dozens and dozens of teeny tiny sneezes, for no place on their weeny anatomies to store a handkerchief and all the fairies have got shocking colds as well as I.

I just itched to know about the teeny face on her forehead, but Nanoannie was more important.

Must be one of those new jobs that float around and vibrate the air with teeny fans like insect wings.

The image of a tiny, fairy-size vampire with white skin, long black hair and teeny pointed teeth, wearing a red-satin-lined black cape over a full-length black dress formed in her mind A fairy vampire?

Not little teeny ones, but long commas next to the smile lines bracketing his mouth.

He drew a deep breath and his two little teeny eyes got so bright I coulda sworn they was gonna touch each other across the middle of his nose.

Belinda took after my mother in every way: cute face, red hair, easy-going personality, teeny frame.

Her teeny face was still and puckered inside her silver veil, and her color went from blood to beet to almost purple.

The ship-soul had found a teeny hole chewed through one of the lock hatches in the vent shafts between the hold and hydroponics next door.

Even with the moonlight, it was too dark to make out the teeny facial features that distinguish one worker from another.

I could imagine the teeny nano-bots fanning out, zipping toward the Fasskisters who loomed above us.

Maybe all the streets around me were nothing but corpses, teeny husks that would slowly crumble away and never get replenished by new generations.

She stared at him, willing herself to hang on to whatever teeny bit of dignity might be left to her.

She figured that absorbing even a teeny bit of either quality would be an improvement.