incy wincy
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Adjective edit
incy wincy (comparative more incy wincy, superlative most incy wincy)
- (childish, informal) Very small.
- 1995, A. S. Byatt, Alan Hollinghurst, New writing, Volume 4:
- I started to look at our valley, and at our incy-wincy bit of settlement in its tuck of green, like a tiny leaf had fallen. And everything was flat.
- 1998, Alison Kelly, Man about the House:
- Fourteen incy-wincy pearl buttons that needed to be pushed through a presumably corresponding number of loops. By him.
- 2007, The Bulletin, volumes 6559-6566:
- There's an incy wincy amount of fruit sweetness, but chill it down and it drinks tremendously.
- Incy Wincy Spider, traditional nursery rhyme, author unknown:
- Incy wincy spider, climbing up the spout.
Down came the rain, and washed poor Incy out!
- Incy wincy spider, climbing up the spout.