What's the difference between weedy and weeny?

Weedy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
  • (superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
  • (superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
  • (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I set off down the still familiar regular path between the regularly spaced trees, finding weedy elder bushes bearing leaves.
  • (2) This locus is, however, highly polymorphic in weedy C. berlandieri populations of western North America.
  • (3) It's so easy, what with advergames , weedy regulation, ferocious lobbyists, monopolies, "regulatory capture", and with sugar and chips being so delicious, comforting, cheap, and all for sale seconds from a school gate near you.
  • (4) It's full of energy but perhaps could have done without the addition of a weedy brass section.
  • (5) Ed Miliband claimed that he and David were simply too weedy to fight.
  • (6) The government claims that tolls will only be charged by roads' new owners for new capacity, but that sounds distinctly like one of those weedy assurances given by politicians that, once yesterday's lunacy has become today's accepted practice, is swiftly forgotten (to these ears, it has a similar ring to all those early New Labour claims about strict limits on private involvement in the NHS, or what the likes of Nick Clegg have said about profit-making schools).
  • (7) You wait for the punchline on Nizlopi's JCB Song before realising, to your horror, that the weedy singing and naive lyric is not a Hoxton parody of outsider art but is meant to signify sincerity.
  • (8) Estate agents suggest sellers should try to: • Keep up external appearances: "To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell.
  • (9) There are no nasty oil-marks on the beach, nor weedy sewage outfalls.
  • (10) As a child he was weedy and introspective, a condition he cured by taking up boxing and rowing at Westminster School.
  • (11) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
  • (12) Facing a swaggering Conservative leadership that increasingly reveals a nasty bullying streak, Labour is tending to give off the anxious vibes of the weedy kid in the playground, eyes down, hands in its pockets, too ready for flight instead of fight.
  • (13) Livers from 4,501 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) collected from a weedy habitat in northeastern California during 48 consecutive monthly samplings were examined microscopically for Taenia taeniaeformis larva.
  • (14) I'm not sure you'd want me to fight a pack of Daily Mail journalists to defend your honour, because I'm weedy and no good at sport, but I do a good line in creative swearing at sexist scumbags.
  • (15) I see Labour MPs and shadow ministers hold their heads in their hands, asking why strong popular policies emerge watered down, weedy and weak.
  • (16) The relatively weedy intellectual decided to attend the local gym.
  • (17) Its followup dramatises a school reunion, which gives weedy Brian and childhood sweetheart Jessica one last chance to get together.
  • (18) They stay home with their colonic irrigationists, and their weedy macrobiotic diets and their personal trainers and their status anxiety.
  • (19) Isozymes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in leaf tissue of the cultivated chenopods (Chenopodium quinoa and C. nuttalliae) and their sympatric weedy relatives (C. hircinum and C. berlandieri) can be electrophoretically resolved into a sum total of five anodally migrating bands.

Weeny


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ITV pictures showed him level when the ball was played, then the computer showed his leg was sticking out but, even if you accept it was accurate modelling, doesn't that mean he was level except a teeny weeny bit of him (what happened to the 'daylight' rule?).
  • (2) He gets a nice comic entrance – stepping out suddenly from beneath a vast coronation mantle to reveal how teeny-weeny he is.
  • (3) A room inside the building contains piles of wheat, soya and maize, which Iddrisu blends with milk creamer and groundnuts to make her own recipe for "weenie mix" – breakfast porridge.
  • (4) We know him best as nerdy schlemiel Herb Stempel from Quiz Show , as weenie-wagger and bowling kingpin Jesus from The Big Lebowski , and as any number of rats and weirdos and yutzes these 30 years past.
  • (5) Stephen Drew hits a teeny, weenie pop in-between the mound and home plate and it falls to the ground.
  • (6) So I'm hoping this all signifies a weeny bit of a turn around for dog world, that after the decades of increasing fear and loathing, of hopeless owners, cruelty, maddened animals, fights, biting, inbred mutants, bursting rescue centres and deaths, we're on the way to more dog appreciation, dancing, love and sunshine instead: dogs as hospital visitors, school reading assistants and the general saviours of mankind.
  • (7) • tiffinasha.com Weenies From Another World I'm almost tempted to say who cares what the food is like, when the cart is so gorgeous.
  • (8) The desert shots are mind-blowing: glimmering mirages, whirling clouds of sand, teeny-weeny people and camels inching across massive, spectacular landscapes (notably Wadi Rum in Jordan, where the real Lawrence and Faisal were based for a while).
  • (9) From here on in, the third floor will not be called "girls", which will not be written in pink, and likewise, the fifth floor will not be called "boys" just because it contains teeny weeny toy soldiers.
  • (10) We are looking at a budget balance in 2017-18 and a tiny weeny maybe surplus in the out years after that.
  • (11) Iddrisu sells more than 1,200 units of weenie mix a month – at about £1 a bag – and she has begun approaching large supermarket chains and hospitals to buy in bulk.

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