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Teeny vs Tweeny - What's the difference?

teeny | tweeny |

As an adjective teeny

is (informal) very small; tiny or teeny can be (uk|dialect) fretful; peevish; cross.

As a noun tweeny is

a between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.

teeny

English

Etymology 1

From

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Very small; tiny.
    • Synonyms
    * (very small) *: (standard): minuscule, minute, tiny *: (informal): teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, weeny, eeny

    Etymology 2

    . See (teen) grief.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) fretful; peevish; cross
    • (Webster 1913)

    tweeny

    English

    Noun

    (tweenies)
  • A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.
  • *1926 , (Ford Madox Ford), A Man Could Stand Up—'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 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 2007, p. 259:
    • Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.