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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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
"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
"It's not just our wee river, it's all over the country, when you hear 50,000 fish killed, I think it's an absolute disgrace," Scullion said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The wee powered hardtop mechanism does retract, after a fashion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 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
“I wonder he didn’t tell thee the old man weer dead.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
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 Fenn, George Manville
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 Fenn, George Manville
“That weer her as see owd Ransome’s wife makking the pie.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
“It weer owd Simmy Slee as made it wuss, wi’ cootting o’ them bands,” said Big Harry.
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
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
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 Roosevelt, Theodore
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 O'Neill, Eugene
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 Sidgwick, Frank
“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 Dale, Daphne
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