Citations:tinchy-winchy

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English citations of tinchy-winchy

  • 1918, Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Sidney McCall, Sunshine Beggars[1], Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134:
    “Those tinchy-winchy little fringy ones?” interrupted Phil, both hands clasped in ecstasy.
  • 1922, Ena Constance Barrett, “Spring”, in Rainbow Lyrics, Erskine MacDonald, →OCLC, page 11:
    Let thy heart forget its pain,
      God has sent sweet showers;
    And baby souls come home again
      As tinchy-winchy flowers.
  • 2010, Maeve McMahon, Riding Out the Hurricane, A little book company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 231:
    “Really?” Then Jade asked Auntie Lynn, “What’ll it be like living in a trailer?”
    “Like a regular house. A tinchy-winchy one.”