| 单词 | a wee bit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa wee bit 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. < as lemmas |
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