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
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"It was unsettling. There are all these wee nooks and crannies, so you could imagine living there a bit of time before anyone would know."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The suspects were stopped by police as they headed in three vehicles in the wee hours of Sunday to the U.K’s Royal Air Force Fairford base in Gloucestershire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
There’s a new, $2 billion plus stadium, which has been mocked for Chia Pet sod, neck-twisting viewing angles and a wee scoreboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Open titlist, called the evening “completely insane” and said finding her best tennis in the wee hours of the morning was difficult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Her lips curl up at the sides in a friendly way and her wee mouth is puckered as if to give a kiss or make a bubble.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
Furtado gaf 23 Maart 1603 bevel de troepen in te schepen2, slechtte het fort op Makjan weer en keerde naar Ambon en kort daarop naar Malakka terug.
“I wonder he didn’t tell thee the old man weer dead.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“What weer it about t’owd one?” said another.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
Ay, I believe thee, but it weer very hard to bear.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
I’m sorry I misjudged him as I did, and I weer too hard upon him; but he hasn’t used me well, neither has Mrs Glaire.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
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
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
D'ye mind the wee lassie that was sae still till she began to know ye—the weest one of them a'?
From Between You and Me by Sir Harry Lauder
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
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
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