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teenty

teenty adjective: very small; teensy.

Adjective

teenty (comparative teentier, superlative teentiest)

  1. (informal) Very small; teensy.

Numeral

teenty

  1. (nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
    • Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.Krieger, Wendy (15 September 2008 (last accessed)), “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    Synonyms:
    short hundred

Synonyms of teenty

Forms of teenty

comparativeteentier
superlativeteentiest

Origin of teenty

* ten + -ty Perhaps from Old English hundtēontiġ (compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatiġ, hundniġontiġ, hundendleftiġ, and hundtwelftiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.

Questions about teenty

What does teenty mean?
Teenty means very small; teensy.
What part of speech is teenty?
Teenty can be an adjective or a numeral.

Words near teenty in the dictionary

  1. teentier
  2. teentiest
  3. teentsier
  4. teentsiest
  5. teentsy
  6. teenty
  7. teenwear
  8. teeny
  9. teeny bopper
  10. teeny boppers
  11. teeny boppery

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