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▪ I. weeny, a. dial. and colloq.|ˈwiːnɪ|
Also 8 weny, 9 weany.
[f. wee, with ending imitated from tiny, teeny a.2]
1. Very small, tiny. Also teeny-weeny (see teeny a.2).
1790Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Wee and weny, very small. North. 1833Christmas Improvement iii. (1841) 40 Such a little tiny weeny pill can never cure such a great big headache as I have got. 1876Mr. Gray & Neighbours II. 140 You have to keep her head the tinyest, weanyest bit in the world to the nor-east. 1911C. Beadle City of Shadows vii, The cupid bow of a mouth opened just the weeniest bit. 1922W. J. Locke Tale of Triona ii. 23 They're little tiny weeny shells.
2. Special collocation: weeny-bopper colloq. [after teeny-bopper], a very young (esp. female) pop fan (sometimes notionally of a younger age group than a teeny-bopper, but the two terms are freq. interchangeable).
1972Daily Express 2 Nov. 16 Britain's ‘weeny-boppers’ are in danger of dancing their way to incurable deafness. 1975Evening News 5 July 16/5 Being a weeny-bopper can be a problem when it comes to clothes... Our model, Karen, nearly 13, got her mum to take her round the stores. 1976M. Butterworth Festival! viii. 133 A couple of weenie-boppers at a pop concert.
▪ II. weeny, n.1|ˈwiːnɪ|
Also weenie.
[f. the adj.]
1. colloq. A very young child.
1844C. Ridley Let. Oct. (1958) xv. 180, I must tell you now about the chicks [i.e. children]. Little weeny is growing visibly. 1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird vi. 82 Not Mr. Paladrini who was so nice to the weenies? 1977Ottawa Citizen 29 June 7/1 Our five-year-old granddaughter keeps asking when the trip is going to begin. Travelling with weenies is something that Mama and I have done for most of our lives.
2. U.S. slang.
a. A girl; an effeminate man.
b. An objectionable person.
1929[see phooey int. (n.)]. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 171 Some of the less frequent..phrases [for an effeminate young man] are: dink..and weenie. 1964Ibid. XXXIX. 118 Free variation..is also established in the interchangeability of the names of smaller animals for socially unacceptable persons: toad, squirrel, and shrimp all serve for the zoologically unsound but all-inclusive weenie.
▪ III. weeny, n.2 U.S. slang.|ˈwiːnɪ|
Also weeney, weenie.
Var. wienie. Cf. winny.
1906Dialect Notes III. 163 Weenie..Wiener Wurst, sausage. ‘Hot Weenies.’ 1935Amer. Speech X. 159 ‘Weinies’, ‘Wienies’, and ‘Weenies’ are also for sale. 1960C. Hamblett in Pick of Today's Short Stories 136 The simplest basics... Marilyn Monroe, hot dogs, weenies. 1981P. Theroux Mosquito Coast viii. 72 Father said, ‘..I've got other weenies to roast.’ And he went back to his maps. |