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- noun nonstandard One
hundred (100), especially ashort hundred when consideringlong hundreds .
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Examples
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Maeks me think of the Laura Ingalls Wilder buk wher theyre teeny teenty little kitten kild its furst mowse with some diffikulty, an Pa sed, “Who evur hurd of a cat-and-mowse fight?”
Fudchain - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Just to correct a teenty tiny one letter error: my book 'River of Gods' hopefully bound for Bollywood, not Hollywood (which is so much more funky ...)
SF Tidbits Part XLIX 2005
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"What do you think, Alice," she said, "Lady Jane has four teenty-tinety kittens -- the darlingest, most cuddly things!"
Peggy in Her Blue Frock Eliza Orne White
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One evening, after my little charge had been put to sleep downstairs by complying with her invariable order to "tell me a 'tory 'bout when oo was a' ittle teenty weenty boy," the doctor came down with a grave face.
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Santa Claus did come again, and left a tre-men-jus big mince pie on the porch -- I picked a teenty hole in the top to see for sure if 'twas mincemeat -- and a bundle of something else.
At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown
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Gertie surprised them all by saying: "I'd like to find a weenty teenty bear cub."
Chicken Little Jane Lily Munsell Ritchie
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"Indeed I could get on very well without the little plague," Joan sometimes grumbled -- "just for a _teenty_ bit of a while," she generally added, hastily; for she really loved her little sister dearly.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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I always knew Hen was weak in the upper story just a teenty mite.
Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails Alan Douglas
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Larry praised her efforts; he was prouder than ever of his sister, -- although, as he remarked, "the corners _would_ look a little bunchy, and the cloth was put on just a _teenty_ bit crooked."
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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Of course it made me laugh, and it _did_ help me think of something else when I was so thirsty that it seemed as if I'd dry up if they didn't give me a teenty drink.
Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown
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