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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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
One detective told the filmmakers that there had been a lot of media interest and admitted: "We're kind of a wee bit on the back foot".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
A wee little voice called out from inside the labyrinth of roots, a tangle that had, Stella now saw, a hidey-hole in its center.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
“Well, I weer, sir; only I shouldn’t like it to seem to ha’ come from me.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“Poor Petrick!” said Sure-shot, as we descended the slope, “he weer the joyfulest kimrade I ever hed, an’ we must gi’ him the berril o’ a Christyan.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
“Well, I weer a-talking about marriages,” said Joe, quietly; “so you take my advice and let things bide.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“When it used to be to the boy,” continued Sim, mimicking the other’s very slow drawling speech: “‘Joey, wilt thou bring me another brick?’ and then thou used to groan because it weer so heavy.”
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
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
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
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
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
“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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