Teeny

Definition: Teeny

Teeny

Adjective

1. (used informally) very small; "a wee tot".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "teeny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Synonyms: Teeny

Crosswords: Teeny

Teeny weeny flight of steps, Sir Wilfrid, we mustn't forget we've had a teeny weeny heart attack. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

Compared to God, the Slime Monster is like a teeny little cornflake! (VeggieTales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared?; writing credit: Norma Marcos)

Nah. Maybe it's got a little pony tail and a teeny, tiny goatee. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Or try our International Coffee Bar, with a small bookstore featuring it's own teeny tiny coffee bar. (Clerks; writing credit: Paul Dini; Brian Kelley)

Teeny Weeny Meany (1966)

Hart genommen Teeny Exzesse 63: Kleine Huren (2001)

Teeny Exzesse 64: Knall mich durch!... Du geile Sau... (2001)

Gut belastbar Teeny Exzesse 47: Junge Stuten (1997)

Teeny Exzesse 49: Wilde Schwestern (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Teeny Tiny Baby (reference)

• God's Little Instruction Book for Couples (God's Little Instruction Book - The Teeny Tiny Series) (reference)

• Teeny (reference)

• The Teeny Tiny Woman (reference)

• Tiny Teeny Halloweeny Treasury (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Teeny Weeny Bit (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "teeny": teeny-bop, teeny-bopper, teeny-boppers, teeny-weenies, teeny-weeny.

Albanian

i vockël (fine, minuscule, minute, pettifogging, picayune, piddling, pinpoint, potty, puny, slight, tiny, trifling, wee, wispy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صغير جدا (dwarfish, midget, minute), ‏صغير (baby, diminutive, infinitesimal, little, lower case, minuscule, minute, niggling, petty, remote, short, small, tiny, tiny bit, wee, young), ‏بالغ الصغر (tiny). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мъничък (elvish, lilliputian, piccaninny, scanty, tiny, wee, weeny), дребничък (minikin, teeny-weeny, tiny). (various references)

Chinese 

极小 (teensy, Wee). (various references)

Czech

mròavý (diminutive, tiny, wee), malinký (pickaninny, tiny, wee), drobounký (petite, tiny). (various references)

Farsi 

ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Little, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Peppercorn, Piddling, Poor, Runty, Scrimp, Straw, Trifle, Trivial, Vain), کوچک (Bantam, Dinky, Little, Miniature, Minuscule, Minute, Petty, Pocket, Puny, Runty, Short, Small, Thumbnail, Weeny), ریزه (Bit, Chip, Midget, Mince, Particle, Shiver). (various references)

French

tout petit, minuscule. (various references)

German

winzig (diminutive, diminutively, imperceptible, infinitesimal, lilliputian, midget, minikin, minuscule, minute, pigmy, teenily, tinily, tiny, undersized, wee, weely, weeny), sehr klein (tiny), klitzeklein (teeny-weeny, tiny). (various references)

Greek 

τοσοδούλικος (teeny-weeny). (various references)

Hebrew 

קט� טן (microscopic, minute, tiny), זעיר (a little while, diminutive, fiddling, inappreciable, minuscule, petite, small, tiny, trivial, wee). (various references)

Hungarian

pici (diminutive, minuscule, mite, tiddley, tiny, toy, wee), parányi (atomic, diminutive, infinitesimal, invisible, microscopic, microscopical, minute, teeny-weeny, tiny, to miniaturize, wee). (various references)

Italian

piccolino (weeny). (various references)

Manx

feer veg (minute, pigmy, teeny-weeny, tiny, very little). (various references)

Pig Latin

eenytay.(various references)

Portuguese

muito pequeno (minute, piccolo, tiny), minúsculo (minute, tiny, wee). (various references)

Russian 

крошечный (minute, tiny, wee, weeny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrlo mali, majušan (one horse, picayune, piccaninny, tiny). (various references)

Spanish

chiquitín (poppet, tiny). (various references)

Swedish

mycket liten (diminutive, fat, infinitesimal, minuscule, scant, tiny, wee, weeny). (various references)

Thai

เล็กมาก (atomic, diminutive, micro, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny). (various references)

Turkish

ufacık (dinky, inappreciable, minuscule, minute, poky, small, smallish, teeny-weeny, tiny, very small, wee, weeny, wispy), minik (diminutive, minuscule, minute, petit, small, teeny-weeny, tiny), minicik (dinky, lilliputian, midget, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee, weeny), genç (adolescent, gossoon, green, junior, juvenile, sapling, teen, teenager, whelp, young, young man, youngish, youngster, youth, youthful), delikanlı (a slip of a boy, adolescent, boy, conceited pup, gossoon, juvenescent, killer, lad, laddie, palikar, pup, puppy, sapling, sprig, stripling, teen, teenager, whelp, young man, youngster, youth). (various references)

Ukranian 

крихітний (diminutive, piccaninny, pickaninny, tiny, wee). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rất nhỏ (infinitesimal, minuscule, teeny-weeny, wee). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "teeny": teenybop, teenybopper, teenyboppers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Teeny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beeny, eency, Eeney, eenie, eenny, eeny, Ewenny, feeny, geeny, meeney, meeny, sheeny, Steveney, taleny, taney, tauny, teany, teecy, teeky, teely, teency, teene, teeney, teenie, teepy, teery, tegen, tely, tendy, tenea, teneb, tenen, teni, tenny, teteny, teun, tewy, texen, teyen, tiene, Tienie, tieny, tierny, toony, treny, treyn, tuey, tuney, tweeny, Tweney, Tyney. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: yente.

-1 letter: eyen, eyne, teen, tyee, tyne.

-2 letters: eye, nee, net, tee, ten, tye, yen, yet.

-3 letters: en, et, ne, ye.

+1 letter: ethyne, teensy, tweeny, yentes.

+2 letters: ethynes, keynote, neoteny, neotype, reentry, seventy, styrene, syenite, teentsy, tensely, yestern.

+3 letters: andesyte, antetype, butylene, cysteine, decently, duvetyne, encysted, entirely, entirety, entreaty, eternity, ethylene, eyepoint, eyestone, genotype, keynoted, keynoter, keynotes, keystone, lientery, neophyte, neotypes, polytene, recently, serenity, styrenes, syenites, teenybop, telegony, tendency, tenderly, tenpenny, unmeetly, yestreen, zygotene.

+4 letters: acetylene, andesytes, antetypes, appetency, bayoneted, butylenes, centenary, clemently, coenocyte, cysteines, duvetynes, dysentery, earnestly, elegantly, embayment, eminently, encrypted, endophyte, endostyle, enjoyment, entelechy, enterally, enthymeme, eternally, ethylenes, ethylenic, evidently, exigently, extensity, eyepoints, eyestones, eyestrain, fervently, genotypes, genteelly, heteronym, hyphenate, inebriety, intensely, keynoters, keystones, leniently, mateyness, mesentery, methylene, necessity, neophytes, nymphette, oxygenate, oystermen, pachytene, phenotype, polythene, presently, renitency, repayment, reticency, safetymen, sedentary, sensately, sergeanty, serjeanty, stenotype, syntheses, teemingly, teleonomy, telephony, tepefying, ternately, tourneyed, truepenny, vestrymen, yestreens, youthened, zygotenes.

+5 letters: acetylenes, acetylenic, adherently, advertency, afferently, anemometry, bayonetted, coenocytes, coherently, competency, concretely, cybernated, cybernetic, cysteamine, cytogenies, decadently, definitely, dementedly, deployment, detergency, dysenteric, efferently, effrontery, elementary, eloquently, embayments, employment, encystment, endemicity, endophytes, endostyles, endothermy, enjoyments, enthymemes, esuriently, eventfully, eventually, everything, expectancy, extendedly, externally, eyeletting, eyestrains, eyestrings, eyewitness, festoonery, fleetingly, frequently, generality, generosity, hemelytron, heterodyne, heterogeny, heterogony, heteronomy, heteronyms, honeyeater, hypertense, hyphenated, hyphenates, hypocenter, hypotenuse, indecently, inexpertly, inherently, intendedly, interlayer, inveteracy, lamentedly, lenitively, melanocyte, methylenes, metonymies, myelinated, negatively, nymphettes, obediently, oxygenated, oxygenates, pachytenes, penitently, pernickety, pertinency, phenotypes, polytenies, polythenes, prepayment, prepotency, pycnometer, pyroxenite, redolently, reidentify, relevantly, repayments, reticently, reverently, segmentary, sentiently, stenotyped, stenotypes, syncretise, syncretize, synergetic, synthesize, synthetase, threepenny, tonelessly, tunelessly, vehemently, veterinary, yeastiness.

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