Citations:tinchy

English citations of tinchy

• 1894, C. C. Scott, Magnolias abloom. A story of Butler's reign in New Orleans [and other stories], →OCLC, page 268:

  I nussed Miss Lou when she’s a tinchy li’l’ baby-gal, an’ Sam, he tuck keer o’ Maws Jarn—dat’s Miss Lou’s pappy—when he was mortally shot indurin’ o’ de war.

• 1905, Gustave Frederick Mertins, The Storm Signal‎^[1], Bobbs-Merrill Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

  “May I go for a little while, mother?” she asked. “Just a little bit o' while; a teeny, tinchy bit o' while, please ma'am?”

• 1967, Oliver R. Pope, Chalk Dust‎^[2], Pageant Press, →OCLC, page 14:

  She asked permission to spell with “just a tinchy bit of snuff in my mouth.”

• 1975, Wallace Hildick, Bracknell's law, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:

  Naturally I was a tinchy bit disappointed about his change of attitude about moving from P.R.P. to N.Y.C., and I guess I must have let it show, as he says.

• 2003, Gavin Corbett, Innocence: a novel, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:

  The funeral was really small. We have a tinchy family.

• 2003, Malachy Doyle, David Lucas, The Ugly Great Giant, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:

  their largest field, which was in fact their only field, was likely to be teeny tinchy tiny compared to that of an Ugly Great Giant's

• 2004 October 15, Sally Vincent, “Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2022-01-28:

  […] when she did the decent thing and showed me the contents of her handbag. Now there's a proper disgrace. Not only is it a slutty mess of used tissues, tinchy purselets and Biros and lippies and bits of biscuit […]

• 2012 October 11, Miranda Hart, Is it just me?.‎^[3], Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC:

  I’d always assumed - and I have a horrible feeling this will just be me - that Tinchy Stryder was some sort of toddler’s walking boot.

• 2013 June 28, Tanya D. Ravenswater, “Panada”, in Emma L.E.Rees, editor, Lost and Found‎^[4], University of Chester, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115:

  “There wouldn't be just ... a tinchy bit more ... panada ...?” Ricky asked, feebly.

• 2014, Martha Long, Run, Lily, Run‎^[5], Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 206:

  It was a tinchy tiny grey thing an its little legs was flyin like pistons, but the carriage was takin its time, barely movin.

• 2014, Virginia Bergin, The Rain, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97:

  I picked off the frost and boiled it in the kettle with the tinchy bit of melt-water I'd thawed off the peas.

• 2015 September 11, Susan Jane White, The Extra Virgin Kitchen: Recipes for Wheat-Free, Sugar-Free and Dairy-Free Eating‎^[6], Gill, →ISBN, →OCLC:

  These tinchy seeds deliver a whackload of omega-3 brainpower.