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Tweeny vs Sweeny - What's the difference?

tweeny | sweeny |

As nouns the difference between tweeny and sweeny

is that tweeny is a between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid while sweeny is an atrophy of the muscles, especially of the shoulder, in horses.

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.

    sweeny

    English

    Alternative forms

    * swinney

    Noun

    (-)
  • An atrophy of the muscles, especially of the shoulder, in horses.
    • (Webster 1913)