| 单词 | a wee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa wee Originally Scottish. extracted from ween.1adj. A. n.1 In early use almost always a little wee, later also a wee: = ‘a little’, ‘a (little) bit’; in various applications (chiefly as adverbial accusative). a. A little or young thing; a child. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8419 He ne es yitt bot a littel wei, þow do him for to foster slei. b. A small quantity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount speckc725 littleOE somethingc1200 lutewihtc1230 little whatc1384 ouncec1387 lap1393 smalla1400 modicumc1400 nekedc1400 spota1413 tinec1420 nieveful?a1425 handfulc1443 mouthful?c1450 smatchc1456 weec1480 quern1503 halfpennyworth1533 groatsworth1562 dram1566 shellful1578 trickle1580 snatch1592 sprinkling1594 fleck1598 snip1598 pittance1600 lick1603 fingerful1604 modicum1606 thimbleful1607 flash1614 dasha1616 pipa1616 pickle1629 drachm1635 cue1654 smack1693 starn1720 bit1753 kenning1787 minikin1787 tate1805 starnie1808 sprat1815 harl1821 skerrick1825 smallums1828 huckleberry1832 scrimp1840 thimble1841 smite1843 nattering1859 sensation1859 spurt1859 pauchlea1870 mention1891 sketch1894 sputterings1894 scrappet1901 titch1937 tad1940 skosh1959 smattering1973 c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher 605 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 357 Þe kinge tuk þan a lytil we of þe fresche blude, & vet his ee. c. To a small extent, in a small degree. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > to a small extent or a little littlec1175 a litec1290 a little quantityc1330 little whata1387 wee1513 a whit1526 thought1581 a wee bita1661 a small (also little) matter1690 a trifle1859 a wheen1869 a taste1894 smitch1895 a lick1902 mite1939 a skosh1959 a tidge1959 a tad1969 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. ix. 61 The quene Dido, astonist a litle wie [1710, we] At the first sycht. 1720 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 85 It lulls a wee my Mullygrubs, To think upon these bitten Scrubs. 1793 T. Hastings Regal Rambler 69 Dinna be angry,..I have been drinking a wi, and I believe the Devil was in me. d. Qualifying an adjective or adverb: Somewhat, rather. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > somewhat somedealc725 halfc1175 somewhatc1175 somethingc1275 little whatc1384 somedeallyc1400 measurablec1420 somewhatlyc1450 somewisec1450 somepartc1485 parta1500 something1548 rather1573 some1575 rathera1684 sunket1686 somethingisha1726 measurably1756 rather1770 rather1772 somec1780 sumthin1786 wee1816 sumfin1852 sumptin1852 measuredly1860 sumpin1889 part-way1954 ish1986 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 161 His brain was awee agee, but he was a braw preacher for a' that. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 340 ‘Are you sure you know the way?’..‘I maybe kenn'd it a wee better fifteen years syne.’ 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 280 I thought it right to look a wee strange upon it at first. 2. A short time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > a short or moderate space of time weekeOE littleOE roomOE stoundOE startc1300 houra1350 furlong wayc1384 piecea1400 weea1400 speed whilec1400 hanlawhilea1500 snack1513 spirt?1550 snatch1563 fit1583 spurta1591 shortness1598 span1599 bit1653 thinking time1668 thinking-while1668 onwardling1674 way-bit1674 whilie1819 fillip1880 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12531 Reuli can he cri and rare, Bolnand in a litel wei, þat al-mast bigan he to dei. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11665 Quen sco had sitten þar a wei [Gött. wey] Sco bihild a tre was hei. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 449 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 269 Quhene he..wist þat [in] a lytil we for falt of met þe barne suld de. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 182 The Kyng than vynkit a litill we [1489 Adv. wey]. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 183 Now will I leif of this ane lytill we. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 139 So at the last the cloude ane lytill we Discouerit wes, that tha micht better se. 1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 154 Scho was wyteles a lytill we. 1592 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems lvi. 2 Stay, passinger, thy mynd, thy futt, thy ee: Vouchsaif, a we, his epitaph to vieu, Quha [etc.]. 1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 39 Ane lytill wie befoir the feist of Ȝule. a1700 Gaberlunzie-Man iv They raise a wee befor the cock. a1728 A. Ramsay Ode Birth of Drumlanrig 47 Ye hardy Heroes..Forsake a wee th' Elysian Plains. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. i. 8 Bide a wee—bide a wee; you southerns are aye in sic a hurry. 1869 A. Macdonald Love, Law & Theol. vii. 120 In a wee they baith felt their wames leavin' them, an' they maist lost their senses. 3. A short distance; a little way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance wurpc950 stepc1000 footc1300 furlong wayc1384 stone-casta1387 straw brede14.. tinec1420 weec1420 field-breadth1535 field-broad1535 pair of butts1545 straw-breadth1577 stone's throw1581 way-bit?1589 space1609 piece1612 littlea1616 spirt1670 a spit and a stride1676 hair's breadth1706 rope's length1777 biscuit throw1796 a whoop and a holler1815 biscuit toss1836 biscuit cast1843 stone-shot1847 pieceway1886 stone-put1896 pitch-and-putt1925 pieceways1932 c1420 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxiii. 5788 We sal fenȝhe ws as we walde fle, And wiþe draw ws a litil we. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 677 Behynd hir a litill we It fell. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 217 Arrowes that felly Mony gret voundis can thame ma, And slew fast of thair horsis alsua, That thai vayndist a litell we. B. adj. a. Extremely small, tiny. (In Scottish use with weaker sense, as a synonym of little.) Often more emphatically wee wee, little wee, wee little.The Shakespeare example is not found in the quarto of 1602; as this has ‘a whay-coloured beard’ in the corresponding sentence, it has been conjectured that the ‘wee-face’ of the Folio may be a mistake for whey-face (cf. Macbeth v. iii. 17). However, the reading of the Folio may be taken as evidence that the adjective was known in 1623. In this and in quot. 1607 the adjective is hyphenated with the following noun, and preceded by little. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] smallOE littleOE litec1275 a little wightc1275 petitc1390 weea1525 pusill1599 slender1610 lile1633 scantling1652 piccaninny1707 pinkie1718 insignificant1748 baby1750 leetle1755 tiddy1781 bit1786 inconsiderable1796 itty1798 peerie1808 tittya1825 titty-tottya1825 ickle1846 tiddly1868 peewee1877 lil1881 shirttail1881 inextensive1890 puny1898 liddle1906 pint-sized1921 pint-size1925 peedie1929 tenas1935 itsy-bitsy1938 itty-bitty1940 titchy1950 scrappy1985 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > extremely small tinea1400 little weea1525 undersmall?1527 little little1542 perpusil1598 tiny1598 punctual1605 minute1606 pygmya1616 exiguous1630 atomical1646 minutulous1651 puncticular1658 arenulous1664 myriate1665 minimal1666 minim1671 infinitesimal1733 minutissim1768 weeny1790 midgety1798 teeny1802 pinpoint1807 atomic1809 homuncular1822 minnow1824 weeshy1825 pinhead1835 finitesimal1836 homoeopathic1838 teeny-weeny1842 teenty1844 teenty-taunty1844 teeny-tiny1849 submolecular1854 teensy1856 super-compact1860 midget1865 ultramicroscopic1870 pilulous1871 teensy-weensy1872 tee-tiny1872 minuscule1878 smitchy1888 eeny-weeny1894 eensy-weensy1904 pygmean1904 ultramicroscopical1904 bitsy1905 bitty1905 totty1906 millimetric1909 miniscule1909 minuscular1911 insectual1912 micro1931 eeny1933 eensy1940 submicrogram1941 submillimetre1954 diddy1963 mini1963 micro-mini1967 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 649 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 115 Ye litill we wran Ye wretchit dorche was. 1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange ii. i Hee was nothing so tall as I, but a little wee-man, and somewhat huckt backt. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 20 He hath but a little wee-face; with a little yellow Beard. View more context for this quotation 1638 in W. N. Clarke Coll. Lett. (1848) 173 Her ministers gangand in guid auld little short cloakes, with wea blacke velvet neckes. 1638 in W. N. Clarke Coll. Lett. (1848) 180 Upon his weake wea nagg. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 104 The very wie-ones [margin, Little Children] were then so serious that [etc.]. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. A 178 A wie [Foot-note: little] Mouse will creep under a mickle Corn-stack. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. B 35 Better a wie Fire to warm us, than a mickle Fire to burn us. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. Gloss. 397 Wee, Little; as, A wanton wee Thing. 1726 Fleming's Fulfilling Script. (ed. 5) sig. *a2v (Table Sc. Phr.) Wie, little, or small. 1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 658 She is a winsome wee thing. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 219 Wee Davock hauds the nowt in fother. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 120 It wad aye serve to keep the puir thing's heart up for a wee while. 1819 J. R. Drake Culprit Fay xv He banned the water~goblins' spite,—For he saw..Their little wee faces above the brine. 1827 G. Darley Sylvia 31 Neater, I ween, though not much ampler, Than wee miss works upon her sampler. 1832 W. Motherwell Oh Wae Be in Poems 6 The wee wee fifes piped loud and shrill. 1846 H. Coleridge Poems II. 23 Like a wee bird struggling in the nest. a1856 in Strang Glasgow & Clubs 574 You have only to raise the window, haud up your wee finger, and, [etc.]. 1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 204 We met little Alix on her wee pony. 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob iii She would be free..to hie herself to London~town and take a dear wee little flat. b. in superlative. ΚΠ 1728 A. Ramsay Reasons Hackney Scribblers 22 To wiest Insects even'd and painted. 1846 A. J. C. Hare Let. 29 Mar. in Story of my Life (1896) I. iii. 206 Tell me all about the wedding—every smallest, weeest thing. a1856 in Strang Glasgow & Clubs 572 They're a' awa, fra the wee'st to the biggest o' them. 1863 ‘Holme Lee’ Annis Warleigh II. 271 Strangers..who wore such amplitude of petticoat that in passing between the ranks of infants..they literally swept the wee-est over. 1883 W. Black Shandon Bells v The boat the wee-est black speck on the silver of the water. c. a wee bit: = ‘a wee’ (see A.). Often quasi-adj. (cf. bit n.2 and adj.2) and quasi-adv. (qualifying an adjective). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > to a small extent or a little littlec1175 a litec1290 a little quantityc1330 little whata1387 wee1513 a whit1526 thought1581 a wee bita1661 a small (also little) matter1690 a trifle1859 a wheen1869 a taste1894 smitch1895 a lick1902 mite1939 a skosh1959 a tidge1959 a tad1969 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 190 Ask a Country-man here on the high-way, how far it is to such a Town, and they commonly return, So many miles and a way-bit... It is not Way-bit, though generally so pronounced, but Wee-bit is a pure Yorkshirisme, which is a small bit in the Northern Language. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. A 183 A wie House well fill'd, a wie bit Land well till'd, and a wie Wife well will'd will make a happy Man. 1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night iii, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 146 His wee-bit ingle, blinkan bonilie. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 474 ‘A wee bit of a thing’—applied to a child, and to almost every little thing. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 75 A boat will wait for you..at a wee bit creek about half a mile westward from the head of the Tay. 1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth xxviii. 140 The champagne..that I had this morning has given me just a wee bit of a migraine. d. the wee folk: the fairies. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > collectively fairya1375 good neighboura1585 faerie1612 good peoplea1692 small people1696 little people1719 Sidhe1724 gentrya1731 little mena1731 small folk1785 little folk1791 gentlefolk1795 the wee folk1819 good folk1820 Pharisee1823 gentle-people1832 fairyhood1844 folk of peace1875 1819 W. S. Mason Statist. Acct. Ireland III. 27 The curate has heard a man swear most solemnly, that he has seen some hundreds of the ‘wee folk’ dancing round these trees. 1854 W. Allingham Fairies 5 Wee folk, guid folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And grey-cock's feather. 1894 K. Grahame Pagan Papers 162 The quotation suggested a fairy story,..But the Wee Folk were under a cloud: sceptical hints had embittered the chalice. e. the Wee Free Kirk: a nickname given to the minority of the Free Church of Scotland which stood apart when the main body amalgamated with the United Presbyterian Church to form the United Free Church in 1900. Hence Wee Frees, Wee Kirkers, the members of the ‘Wee Free’ church. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Wee Free Wee Kirkers1904 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > minority group lunatic fringe1913 Wee Frees1953 1904 Monthly Rev. Oct. 5 The Free Kirk and the ‘Wee’ Kirk. 1904 Times 31 Dec. 8/1 The funds must be handed over to the remnant of the old Free Church—the ‘Wee Frees’, as Scotland nicknames them. 1905 P. W. Wilson Why we believe v. 61 Scotland is convulsed because the property of the United Free Church has been handed over by a court of law to a remnant of Wee Kirkers. 1953 Earl Winterton Orders of Day viii. 92 In 1919..both the Labour and Liberal Oppositions were small and ineffective. The latter, facetiously known as the ‘Wee Frees’..split into two halves led by Sir Donald Maclean and Mr. George Lambert respectively. 1966 Punch 20 July 123/3 His account of the way in which the Wahabis—the Calvinistic ‘wee frees’ of Islam—are surrendering to the worst of Western culture is a lively moral tale in itself. 1979 H. Wilson Final Term i. 10 The smell of power..was in their nostrils, for the first time since the ‘Wee Frees’, the Samuelite Liberals, had left the 1931 Coalition Government. f. the wee (small) hours = small hours at small adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > morning > [noun] > early morning > early hour(s) little hours1540 short hour1837 the wee (small) hours1849 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxxi, in Poems (new ed.) 65 The auld kirk-hammer strak the bell Some wee short hour ayont the twal.] 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ii. 73 She followed the steps of the night, on its pathway of stars, far into the ‘wee sma' hours ayont the twal’. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home viii. 97 Often would he be beguiled by his studies into the ‘wee small’ hours of night. a1891 H. Melville To Major John Gention in Compl. Wks. (1924) XIII. 366 In the wee hours..how affluent hast thou been on that theme. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 232 They'd another long dram, and they argued far to the wee, small hours. 1949 ‘P. Michaels’ This Perverse Generation v. 44 No one has a persistent inner compulsion to..talk about silly things in crowded, stuffy, little night-club rooms at wee hours of the morning. 1966 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept viii. 193 We walked back..in the ‘wee sma' 'oors’ of the following morning. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 278 Several acts keep the place hopping from dinner time until the wee hours. < as lemmas |
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