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eeny

eeny adjective: minuscule. Also the pronunciation spelling of any.

Adjective (1)

eeny (not comparable)

  1. (informal) minuscule
    • Can you put an eeny bit of mustard on my hot dog?
    • Then they would go back to the gang house—Woody named it the Eeny House because it was so small [...].1999, Joe Klein, Woody Guthrie: A Life, page 35

Adjective (2)

eeny (not comparable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Holey, cellular.

Adverb

eeny (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) With most, almost
    • He eeny most had enough to eat.
  2. (dialectal) Only
    • He's eeny just come home.

Also used as

eeny is also the pronunciation spelling of any.

Examples of eeny in a sentence

  • ... and weep and moan and scream every little eeny orgasm.2003, Craig Lucas, “Reckless”, in Reckless and Other Plays, page 54:
  • The interior is, perhaps, an eeny bit tricksy, but has worn surprisingly well over nearly four years and did not really need the light refreshment it has received in the Cabrio2004 August 14, Stephen Bayley, “Car culture: Why a MINI is better than a Porsche”, in Daily Telegraph:

Synonyms of eeny

Origin of eeny

Possibly from teeny weeny.

Words formed from eeny

Words that rhyme with eeny

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about eeny

What does eeny mean?
Eeny means minuscule.
How do you use eeny in a sentence?
... and weep and moan and scream every little eeny orgasm.
What part of speech is eeny?
Eeny can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near eeny in the dictionary

  1. eens
  2. eensy
  3. eensy-weensy
  4. EENT
  5. eentsy
  6. eeny
  7. eeny, meeny, miny, moe
  8. eeny-meeny-miney-mo
  9. eeny-weeny
  10. EEO
  11. EEOC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eeny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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