wheen
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Definition of wheen
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (UK, dialectal)A little; a small number.
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noun
- (UK, dialectal)A little; a small number.
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(Northern-Ireland, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A quantity; a goodly number.
“I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs.”
“She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.”
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
From Middle English *wheen, quhein (also hwan, hwon, quhon), from Old English hwēne, hwǣne (“somewhat, a little”), instrumental form of hwōn (“little, few, a little, trifle, somewhat, a little while”).
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