weeny
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Fields; Theodore Roosevelt, who undermines his Rough Rider persona with a weeny, high voice; and William Howard Taft exhibiting his native Ohio’s warmish “r’s” and open vowels.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
After teeny Herm and weeny Sark, Alderney felt like a metropolis.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2015
In practice it generally means that a weeny notion hopes to gain weight by attaching itself to a mighty abstract.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
Viola Davis, 46, elicited a positive response when she wore her TWA, or "teeny weeny Afro," as the look is known, on the red carpet at the 2012 Academy Awards.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2012
"I don't think it would matter," he said to himself, "if I opened the door just a weeny teeny bit."
From The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker
“The weenies in white coats are finally calling all the shots,” Ed grouses.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
He has tried to untangle the debate between bacon strips and bits, opined on the brilliance of weenies and eggs, and considered the beauty of a well-made flour tortilla.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
At the end of the day, Village is still occasionally a tough sit for weenies like me, but the fantastical richness of the world it’s set in helps to make the horror more tolerable.
From Slate ● May 7, 2021
Makes you wonder whether, in the middle of the night, your dog suddenly mistook your bare toes for cocktail weenies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019
“With all his education, mind you. Selling weenies out on the street in the broad daylight.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Well, one day Mrs. Kitty was going to give a birthday party for the weeniest kitty.
From The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives by Worthington, Elizabeth Strong
Well, but what I meant to say is, the only weeniest speck of a fault I ever had to find with the Snowy—darling thing!—was that she was a little bit—just the tiniest winiest scrap—too serious.
From The Merryweathers by Richards, Julia Ward
Very, very slowly and carefully, so as not to make the teeniest, weeniest sound, Longlegs lifted one foot to wade out into the Smiling Pool.
From The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Then each little Chuck would sit up very straight and not move the teeniest, weeniest bit, so that from a little distance they looked for all the world like tiny stumps.
From The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
If you ever want to catch a Fox asleep, you mustn't make the teeniest, weeniest noise.
From Old Granny Fox by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
