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ˈteenty, a. U.S. colloq.
[From teeny a.2]
Very tiny, delicately small, ‘wee’. Also teenty-taunty, teenty-tointy adjs.
1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 227 A little teenty tointy handful of wood keeps 'em [sc. stoves] warm as blazes. Ibid. 230 Then she took up one teenty glove. 1863A. D. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood v. 46 She would open the window a ‘teenty little crack’. 1863Harper's Mag. Dec. 112/2 A pretty little teenty-taunty babe as ever you see. 1894C. F. Woolson in Harper's Mag. Feb. 429 You were six months old—a little teenty baby. 1896Chicago Advance 20 Feb. 260/2 Saving our teenty, dainty roses. |