traneen
Traneen is an Irish English word meaning the very smallest amount — a whit, a jot, or a scrap.
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Traneen is an Irish English word meaning the very smallest amount — a whit, a jot, or a scrap. When someone says there is not a traneen of difference or they do not care a traneen, they are reaching for the absolute floor of smallness. The word has a musical, almost dismissive quality that makes it satisfying to use, and it conveys a colourful Irish rhetorical tradition of expressing absolute negation with vivid understatement.
She didn't give a traneen what the neighbours thought of her new paint colour.
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(Ireland) The least amount; a whit or jot.
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