Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little (originally used adverbially); a small number; hence, a quantity.
- noun A dialectal form of
queen .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A quantity; a goodly number.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
little ; a small number. - noun Scotland, Northern Ireland A
quantity ; a goodly number.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There’ll be an indication wheen is the next train will come.
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There’ll be an indication wheen is the next train will come.
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I thought she did good but i wish Bella would havde called out edwards name wheen she was sleeping.
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"Oh," she would say, in weary complaint, "I just took it to break a wheen coals;" and he would find it in the coal-hole, greasy and grimy finger-marks engrained on the handle which he loved to keep so smooth and clean.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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If your going to just get a pump, why spend more money on the benalli wheen the 870 or the mossberg will get the job done for you.
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If your going to just get a pump, why spend more money on the benalli wheen the 870 or the mossberg will get the job done for you.
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"Weel then, what story should I geeve theem wheen they are brought around?"
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I think President Obama is trying to wheen the U.S. from foreign oil from countries who hate the U.S.
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Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran.
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I suppose you could say one or the other person is dominant by one criteria or another in the best of all possivble worlds as far as I'm concerned it would be a constantly fluctuating thing based on capability with whoever's best ast a given thing being the dominant one wheen that thing or activity is what;s happening that's what I currently strive for in long term relationships
The Happening (2008) Steven Barnes 2008
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