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peewee
[ pee-wee ]
adjective
- very small; tiny.
- insignificant or inconsequential:
a player sent to the peewee leagues.
noun
- a person or thing that is unusually small.
- an animal that is small for its kind; runt.
- Marbles. a small playing marble, often one made of clay rather than glass.
peewee
/ ˈpiːwiː /
noun
- See peweea variant spelling of pewee
- See peewita variant (esp Scot) of peewit
- See magpie larkanother name for magpie lark
- an age level of 12 to 13 in amateur sport, esp ice hockey
- ( as modifier )
peewee hockey
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Example Sentences
And if you will not for my sake, then at least do so for the sake of Vipa (Peewee), your youngest daughter!
It always seemed to me that the peewee birds sang very dolefully after I had had my jacket warmed.
The peewee loves to place his nest under the eaves of a sheltering porch, and the phœbe is no less sociable.
He was a tiny little fellow, known affectionately among his friends as Stub, or Peewee or Pygmy.
If he had, he should have been registered, for there was only one Peewee Harris in all the wide world.
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