wheen
/wiːn
/noun [in singular] chiefly Scottish
A considerable amount or number: a wheen of pennies...
- The nationalism that O'Hagan describes as ‘shaking hands with the past’ has not a wheen of history about it.
- A fresh northerly breeze and a wheen of fresh faces took to the well-grassed sward of Old Anniesland.
- There is a whole wheen of areas where we can use more effective ways to encourage arts investment.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old English hwēne 'in some degree'.
- polar curve
- polar diagram
- polar dial
- polar diameter
- polar distance
- polar equation
- polar flattening
- steak
- steak au poivre
- steak Diane
- steak fry
- steakhouse
- steak knife
- steak tartare
- steal
- stealable
- steal a march on
- stealer
- steal (or hog) the limelight
- steal someone blind
- steal someone's heart
- steal someone's thunder
- stealth
- steal the show
- stealthily