weensy

teensy-weensie

childish Particularly small or tiny. I'm not hungry myself, but I'd love to try just a teensy-weensie bite of your meal, if you don't mind. Be sure to appreciate the time when your children are teensy-weensie, because they grow up very fast!

teeny-weeny

childish Extremely small; tiny. I'm not hungry, but I'd love to try just a teeny-weeny bite of your meal, if you don't mind. Be sure to appreciate the time when your children are teeny-weeny, because they grow up very fast!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

teeny-weeny

and teenie-weenie and teensy-weensy (ˈtiniˈwini and ˈtintsiˈwintsi)
mod. tiny. Could you move just a teenie-weenie bit to the left?

teensy-weensy

verb
See teeny-weeny
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • teensy
  • teensy-weensie
  • teensy-weensy
  • teeny
  • teeny-weenie
  • weenie
  • teenie
  • teenie-weenie
  • teeny-weeny
  • have a bite
References in periodicals archive
She studied the fighting behavior of these 'eensy weensy' creatures, trying to decipher if they are fiercer when famished or when they had just hatched their eggs.
Her waist is teensy weensy - still not sure where she digests her food.
Tiny Tales Laura Johnson at Lindisfarne Castle, September 8-November 4, www.nationaltrust.org.uk When not constructing huge props for James Bond and Sherlock Holmes films at Pinewood, Laura Johnson is making teensy weensy people.
Of course, there's the fleeting chance a neighbour may mention in passing the fact there was a teensy weensy bit of a fire at the house, but them's the breaks.
And we've got to beat that teensy weensy posh girl whose prosecuting.
Manchester United finally recognise they have a teensy weensy bit of a problem on the PR front, and appoint a Director of Communications to help smooth a few shattered relationships.
In times such as these, when the more miserable and distant lands seem to disappear from the horizon, it may help us a bit, perhaps a teensy weensy bit, I would hope, to think of the Paulinas, the Gerardos, the Robertos, of the world--to figure out for ourselves which of these three we most resemble, how much of our secluded lives are expressed in each of these characters and in all of them.
A MEXICAN dog breeder has developed Chihuahua guard dogs that look like the teensy weensy dogs, but have strong jaws and attack in packs.
Features easily reproduced finger puppets such as bugs, dinosaurs, elephants, monkeys and frogs, as well as favorites like the Eensy Weensy Spider, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Owl and the Pussycat.
he isn't around he leaves an awful doesn't he?" I hope I'll leave a teensy weensy hole in your Saturdays but more than readers, thank you.
For years she has gone on and on about how Big is Beautiful, how she's enormously happy being enormous and implying that, really, perhaps we're all a teensy weensy bit lacking in humour if we don't join her on her way to straining arteries and an outsize wardrobe (which handily can be bought from 1647, her very own clothes label).
3 I PROMISE to keep wearing that earnest (and just a teensy weensy bit camp) expression when making those promises I won't keep.
Nate James' track When Kingdom Falls is just a teensy weensy taster of the delights yet to come from Nate James this year.
And as for the green environmentalists who are forever nagging us to buy friendly cars with teensy weensy engines, well, they will be complete losers with these new proposals.
I once worked alongside a hardnosed temptress who used to call up her much older lover and simper down the phone that she needed 'a teensy weensy' bit of money to buy a designer frock.