Twenny vs Tweeny - What's the difference?
twenny | tweeny |
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* 1990 , Alan Duff, Once were warriors
* 2000 , Simon J. Charlesworth, A phenomenology of working class experience page 128
* 2006 , Les Standiford , Miami Noir page 264
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 numeral twenny
is eye dialect of lang=en (20.As a noun tweeny is
a between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.twenny
English
Numeral
(head)- Ah, ya ain't worried bouta a lousy twenny' cents are ya? Mean to say, it ain't gonna bust ya is it? Ah, Missa Jake, price on board say five dollah ' twenny . Price not go down. When it does, we change up on board.
- He's got rait good trainers, he buys 'is own trainers, 'is got a paper rahnd, he gets twenny'-odd quid a week, I think he gets '''twenny''' three, he 'as three quid an' his Mum teks ' twenny quid off'im.
- He paid me twenny bucks ta swap out with him.
- Twenny bucks? That wuzz a lot.
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.
