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
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To let you in on a wee secret, a defense and discipline-oriented culture goes a long way to being competitive at the level Trojan fans expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Working into the wee hours of the morning, he has flagged about 7,000 scam profiles, including many funneling applicants to those roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Fighting scams keeps Jones up into the wee hours, and he often has dozens of tabs open on his computer at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The young mum spent nine months with her baby - a beautiful boy with "gorgeous wee black hair" - before he was taken from her.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
A poor wee mess he was with a sore on his mouth and a scratch on his cheek from chasing Biddy the hen.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
“They’d seen thee talk to the bairn, or mebbe seen thee heving a walk wi’ her, and that weer enew to set their tongues clacking.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“That weer her as see owd Ransome’s wife makking the pie.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
Just as I towd thee, farmer, there weer a robbery at the vicarage last night.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
I couldn’t feel as it weer raight not to come, and even though you may think it spiteful, it isn’t, but on’y for your sake alone.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
"Oudt! oudt weer?" asked Schults, pausing with a tray of onions in his hands.
From Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Jack Thorne
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
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 wente up to the Saylis, These yemen all three; They loked est, they loked weest, They myght no man see.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
“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
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