teenty

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Adjective ==== teenty (comparative teentier, superlative teentiest) (informal) Very small; teensy. === Etymology 2 === 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. ==== Numeral ==== teenty (nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds. Krieger, Wendy (15 September 2008 (last accessed)), “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1] 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. ===== Synonyms ===== short hundred ===== Antonyms ===== twelfty ===== Related terms ===== eleventy