wheen
Pronunciations (2)
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/ʍiːn/
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/wiːn/
Noun
A little; a small number.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
A quantity; a goodly number.
Usage- Northern-Ireland
- Scotland
- UK usage
- dialectal
- Examples
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I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs.
More examples (1)
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.
Word forms
wheenswheanwhin