Tweeny vs Tweely - What's the difference?
tweeny | tweely |
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:
As a noun tweeny
is a between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.As an adverb tweely is
in a twee manner.tweeny
English
Noun
(tweenies)- Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.