teeny-weeny

or tee·nie-wee·nie

[ tee-nee-wee-nee ]

adjective

, Baby Talk.

1. tiny; small.

Word History and Origins

Origin of teeny-weeny¹

1875–80; teeny + weeny tiny; weenie

Example Sentences

“A terabyte is, for most people, gigantic, yet a fragment of a human brain – just a miniscule, teeny-weeny little bit of human brain – is still thousands of terabytes.”

From Science Daily

“It is a teeny-weeny budget for what needs to be done,” Birnbaum said.

From Scientific American

“I haven’t written this essay in the hope that anybody will get out a violin for me, not even a teeny-weeny one,” she wrote.

From Fox News

It's a mystery, like those big heads on Easter Island or the popularity of the teeny-weeny knapsack.

From Literature

Those of us who fancy ourselves as purists about cinema can gripe all we like about films being diminished by the haste with which they have reached our teeny-weeny screens.

From The Guardian

Related Words

• small