| 词汇 | teeny-weeny |
| 词源 | teeny-weeny. An Americanism that combines teeny, a vari- ant of tiny, and wee, “small,” teeny-weeny is first recorded in the 1890s as a word describing someone or something very little. Still used today and immortalized in the popular song “Itsy Bit- sy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” (1960), it was helped along by the “Teenie Weenies” comic strip that appeared in many U.S. newspapers from the 1920s up until the 1960s. |
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