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Meaning of Wheen | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ʍiːn

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. A little; a small number.
  3. A quantity; a goodly number.
    Northern-Ireland, Scotland, UK, dialectal

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Examples

“I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs.”
“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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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