English

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Noun

1. A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 259:

     Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.