wee
Americanadjective
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little; very small.
- Synonyms:
- minuscule, diminutive, tiny
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very early.
in the wee hours of the morning.
noun
verb
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of wee
before 1150 for an earlier sense; Middle English we, variant of wei (small) quantity, Old English wēg, Anglian form of wǣge weight, akin to wegan to weigh 1
Vocabulary lists containing wee
Example Sentences
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Ideally, a lot of these things would have came to fruition a wee bit quicker.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Weak and tired, Jackie was scooped up from the north shore of Big Bear Lake in the wee hours of Saturday by a team from the San Dimas Raptor Rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the wee hours of Sunday, Herambh Karmarkar’s wife received two messages from her seafarer husband, who was aboard a ship that had just safely crossed the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Chile needs to grow and this bill makes it possible," Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz said after the chamber approved the reforms in the wee hours of Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
“And mine’s got wee feet and a wee pointy beak,” Florida said.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
“That weer her as see owd Ransome’s wife makking the pie.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“No,” said the farmer, savagely, “and he aint been back yet; but that don’t prove he weer lungeing ’bout parson’s.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
I weer in the wrong, and I shouldn’t feel it weer raight to go back theer again.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“I wonder he didn’t tell thee the old man weer dead.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
Catch’t e the burd-lime’s trecherus twigs, To weer he chanc’d to stray, The burd iz fassend fathers leaves, Then gladly flies away.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
“She had the weest, teentiest toes, And the leastest speck of a blackish nose, With great, great eyes”—“Coo, coo! coo, coo!”
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale
You're sure you've never regretted—never had the weest doubt that it might have been better with—someone else?
From The First Man by Eugene O'Neill
He, the "old bird," the cool hand, the sharp one of Ours, to have been done brown, to be the joke of the mess, the laugh of all the men, down to the weest drummer-boy!
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
They built, and they presented to me, the weest piano ever you saw—a piano so wee that it could be carried in an ordinary motor car.
From A Minstrel in France by Sir Harry Lauder
To-day is Quentin's birthday and he loved his gifts, perhaps most of all the weest, cunningest live pig you ever saw, presented him by Straus.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
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