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Meant to mean miniscule. eeny-weeny may be the more common variation though.--Keene 11:00, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- Missing senses: eye-dialect/uk dialect for "any", "only", "eeny most" = "almost".
- The minuscule sense is something you might hear from a child or someone who spends a lot of time with children. I certainly have. My bgc searches have yet to turn up a cite for the use in print. Is it "clearly widespread"? DCDuring TALK 11:46, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- I'd expect more in combinations like "eeny little" or "eeny wee", which get one g.b.c hit each [1]. Also "eeny teeny" gets at least one google news hit. [2] Kappa 12:09, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- I couldn't find very many stand-alone uses of "eeny", except as a name for a child or a pet. I inserted my two best cites, as well as all the other senses that I found. DCDuring TALK 12:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- I always thought it meant one in the phrase eeny weeny, or possibly just the indefinite article (c.f. eine kleine ? (I don't speak German)). The derivation seems to be lost in history, but I've always associated it with the dialect word yan. Dbfirs 08:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- I couldn't find very many stand-alone uses of "eeny", except as a name for a child or a pet. I inserted my two best cites, as well as all the other senses that I found. DCDuring TALK 12:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- I'd expect more in combinations like "eeny little" or "eeny wee", which get one g.b.c hit each [1]. Also "eeny teeny" gets at least one google news hit. [2] Kappa 12:09, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- No one has mentioned eeny meany miny mo, I would guess that is the most common pharse with "eeny" included. - [The]DaveRoss 15:30, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Cited The original RfV was inserted when the sole sense was "minuscule". That sense has been cited. When the other senses were added the RfV should have been converted to an rfv-sense. DCDuring TALK 18:26, 19 April 2008 (UTC)