tweeny
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See also: tweenie
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtwiːni/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]tweeny (plural tweenies)
- (tennis) A shot played between the legs; a tweener.
- (now historical) A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.
- 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 540:
- ‘You subscribed,’ Valentine said, ‘to purchase his library and presented it to his wife…who had nothing to eat but what my wages as a tweeny maid got for her.’
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 259:
- Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tweeny (comparative tweenier or more tweeny, superlative tweeniest or most tweeny)
- Characteristic of a typical tween (a child not quite old enough to be a teenager).
- 2012 November 23, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck[1]:
- throw the tweeniest, brattiest tantrum