tweeny

plural tweenies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of tweenie.
2. hobbiesA shot played between the legs; a tweener.
3. colloquialhistoricalA between-maid.

   Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 259

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   ‘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.’

   1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 540

comparative tweenier · comparative more tweeny · superlative tweeniest · superlative most tweeny

1. Characteristic of a typical tween (a child not quite old enough to be a teenager).

   throw the tweeniest, brattiest tantrum

   2012 November 23, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck, archived from the original on 21 May 2022

2. Making movements similar to those of tweened animation.