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
"He was a great wee fella, very thoughtful but also full of fun and he just loved the craic," his mum Denise recalls.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
The wee powered hardtop mechanism does retract, after a fashion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
The 34th segment is a wee bit too short; the half-inch ruler juts out a little beyond the corner of the square.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Things are just where they weer, and unless Master Dick comes down, the works will keep shut.”
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
“What time weer it to be, lad?” whispered Harry.
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
Just as I towd thee, farmer, there weer a robbery at the vicarage last night.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
"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 Thorne, Jack
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
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 Lauder, Harry, Sir
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 Lauder, Harry, Sir
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
“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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