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English
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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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
wheen (plural wheens)
- (UK dialectal) A little; a small number.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Mid-Ulster) A quantity; a goodly number.
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and Archibald Constable and Co., , →OCLC:I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide: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.
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