tweenyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 'tween +‎ -y.

名詞

tweeny (複数形 tweenies)

1. (tennis) A shot played between the legs; a tweener.
2. (now historical) A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.
   • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 540:

     ‘You subscribed,’ Valentine said, ‘to purchase his library and presented it to his wife…who had nothing to eat but what my wages as a tweeny maid got for her.’

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 259:

     Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.

語源 2

From tween +‎ -y.

形容詞

tweeny (comparative tweenier または more tweeny, superlative tweeniest または most tweeny)

1. Characteristic of a typical tween (a child not quite old enough to be a teenager).
   • 2012 November 23, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck‎^[1]:

     throw the tweeniest, brattiest tantrum