What does wheen mean?
Wheen means (UK dialectal) A little; a small number..
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/ʍiːn/ · noun
(UK dialectal) A little; a small number..
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.
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Wheen means (UK dialectal) A little; a small number..
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I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs.
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