Tweeny vs Weeny - What's the difference?
tweeny | weeny |
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:
Minuscule.
A wiener, a hot dog.
(slang) A penis, from the resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny weeny
As nouns the difference between tweeny and weeny
is that tweeny is a between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid while weeny is a wiener, a hot dog.As an adjective weeny is
minuscule.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.
