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    `Weeny` means very, very small — and it is a warm, childish, playful word rather than a neutral one. Nobody it in a report. You hear it from parents talking to children, from friends being with each other, and in phrases where the speaker wants to sound gentle or a bit cute. It is nearly always used before a noun ("a weeny bit," "a weeny little baby"), and very often it is doubled up with `teeny`: **teeny-weeny** is far more common than `weeny` on its own, and that is the form your students are most likely to meet — in songs, cartoons, and joking speech. There is a second use worth knowing: `a weeny bit` works like `a tiny bit`, meaning slightly, just a little. "I'm a weeny bit worried." Here it is what you say, making the worry sound small and . This is closer to how the word actually earns its keep in real conversation. It sounds British more than American, and it sounds old-fashioned-cute; a student who uses it in an essay will sound like they swallowed a children's book. Keep it for speech with people you're close to. Be careful of one more thing: in American slang, `weenie` (spelled with -ie, from `wiener`, a sausage) is a completely different word — it means a hot dog, or a foolish weak person, and it is also a rude word for the male body. Same sound, different word.

    小小的、迷你的(帶童趣、口語,常說 teeny-weeny 小不隆咚)

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組成Probably wee (a small word for "small," originally Scottish, still everyday in Britain) + the ending -y, which turns a word into a describing word with a friendly, childlike feel — the same -y you see in sleepy or doggy. It may also just have grown out of the rhyming pair teeny weeny, where sound matters more than sense. Scholars are not certain which came first.

同家族的字

  • weethe same root; `wee` alone means small — "a wee bit tired"
  • teenya play on `tiny`, the rhyming partner that `weeny` is usually attached to

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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weenyadj詞源 1/ˈwiːni/

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    dialectalMinuscule; tiny.

    • "So my gran'father, like a fool, ye see, opened his hand a little, an' the little weeny chap jumped away laughin', an' he niver seen him any more, an' the divil a bit o' the purse did he git; only the Cluricaun left his little shoe that he was makin'."

weenynoun詞源 2/ˈwiːni/

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    A wiener, a hot dog.

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    slangA penis

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。