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Weeny vs Tiny - What's the difference?

weeny | tiny |

As adjectives the difference between weeny and tiny

is that weeny is minuscule while tiny is very small.

As nouns the difference between weeny and tiny

is that weeny is a wiener, a hot dog while tiny is a small child; an infant.

weeny

English

Etymology 1

Possibly imitative from teeny weeny, or from

Adjective

(er)
  • Minuscule.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (weenies)
  • A wiener, a hot dog.
  • (slang) A penis, from the resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny weeny

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    tiny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Very small.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny' creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying ' tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}

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    Antonyms

    * huge, large, big

    Derived terms

    * tinyness

    Noun

    (tinies)
  • A small child; an infant.
  • *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 28:
  • *:‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny .’
  • * 1982 , Young children in China (page 84)
    • The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).
  • Anything very small.
  • * 1956 , Victoria Sackville-West, Even More For Your Garden (page 102)
    • Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies ? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.

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