wheen

I'm saying—my lads—will ye gie ower this weary warrk a wee whilee and sheer a wheen sheep to me?

I've written books myself, and who reads them but a wheen of graybeards, and they drowsing by the fire?

A similar tendency is in the sound of whine, which in Munster is always made wheen: 'What's that poor child wheening for?'

Wheen; a small number, a small quantity:—'I was working for a wheen o' days': 'I'll eat a wheen of these gooseberries.'

Weel, sir, there's a guid wheen veesitors in Inverness the noo: so sit whaur ye can see yer umbrella!