teenty

(=tiny)极小的

词形变化

teentier 比较级 teentier teentiest teentiest 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Very small; teensy.

    非正式
num.
  1. 1.

    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.

词源

* 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.

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