What does teensy-weensy mean?

teensy-weensy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.49 in modern English

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Colloquial; Humorous

"... Rose was no longer a funny teensy-weensy of an infant pig, but was now a half-grown, solid, fat porker ..."
"And there was a big-bellied jar in which the Queen's Henchman used to hide, and spring up at her, and frighten her, when she was but a teensy-weensy Princess like you."

teensy-weeniest (superlative) teensy weensy (alternative)

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