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Definition of peewee in English: peeweenoun ˈpiːwiːˈpiˌwi 1Any of a number of birds with a call that resembles the word ‘peewee’. Example sentencesExamples - From the Atlantic coastline to the Pocomoke River and Forest, Worcester is home to pelicans and peewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, and herons, harriers, and eagles.
- 1.1Australian
another term for magpie lark Example sentencesExamples - Queenslanders must give up peewees, South Australians desist talking about Murray Magpies and I must stop enjoying Mudlarks.
- I think the scalies appreciate it too… and the native pigeons, the possums, the tree snakes, and the peewees.
- 1.2Scottish The northern lapwing.
- 1.3North American
2North American usually as modifier A level of amateur sport, involving children aged eight or nine (in the US) or twelve or thirteen (in Canada) Example sentencesExamples - In the game's final 14 minutes, Gretzky did whatever he pleased, toying with the league's best as if they were a peewee team.
- This isn't peewee football, where teams are grouped into age categories because of the huge advantages older kids have (in size, strength, speed, and coordination) over younger ones.
- Promotional costs - for example, sponsoring a peewee football team - are also deductible as long as there is a clear connection between the sponsorship and your business.
- We were in the peewee semifinals for all of Ontario.
- He has been snapping so long - since his peewee days - that he knows how to grip the ball to make it spin into the holder's hands so the laces won't be a problem.
- He played T-ball, then moved on to peewee baseball, and played on the high school team since he was in seventh grade at the middle school.
- He sponsors an Urban League girls basketball league and an AAU boys travel team, and he bought equipment last year for a peewee football team.
- I was winning science fairs left and right, getting my picture in the paper for spelling bees and peewee football games, and many more little achievements of mine.
- Last season he coached the peewee team to the league title but fell to rivals Surrey and Richmond in the provincial playdowns.
- I hadn't done that in front of my dad since my last year in peewee football.
- Then I'd come home, and there would be peewee soccer or Little League.
- The penultimate sibling in a brood of four girls and three boys reared by Karen Dawsey, Brackins is 9 when he first puts on football pads for a peewee league team.
- Ferrell plays Phil, a peewee soccer coach driven to insanity by his scarily competitive relationship with his father.
- On either side of the play-park was a green park where people usually walked their dogs, or went for walks on sunny afternoons, or hosted peewee practice for numerous sports.
- Good things apparently come in twos as well as threes - at least when it comes to the North Shore Winter Club's Winterhawks peewee hockey teams.
- I remember one time I scored seven goals in a peewee game when I was eight.
- The top three in peewee barrel racing were Tyler Scherger, Wyatt Branden and Brecken Tulloch with times of 18.433, 19.136 and 19.194 seconds respectively.
- You can come, but I've got to have you home by six for peewee practice.
- I would hold a team meeting and ask each of the rookies to recount the moments when they really came through under pressure - whether it was in peewee golf, college or on tour.
- It's like a peewee golf course for fishermen.
- 2.1 A player at a peewee level of sport.
Example sentencesExamples - They have beaten Western goliaths, such as the Spurs and Lakers, but have lost to peewees, such as the Bulls and Grizzlies.
- Taekwon-Do classes for peewees are held in the Leisure Centre on Mondays and Wednesday from 5 to 6pm.
Origin Mid 19th century (in peewee (sense 3 of the noun)); peewee (sense 1 of the noun) is imitative; peewee (sense 2 of the noun, are from wee, by reduplication. Definition of peewee in US English: peeweenounˈpiˌwiˈpēˌwē 1North American usually as modifier A level of amateur sports, involving children aged eight or nine. Example sentencesExamples - On either side of the play-park was a green park where people usually walked their dogs, or went for walks on sunny afternoons, or hosted peewee practice for numerous sports.
- I was winning science fairs left and right, getting my picture in the paper for spelling bees and peewee football games, and many more little achievements of mine.
- Good things apparently come in twos as well as threes - at least when it comes to the North Shore Winter Club's Winterhawks peewee hockey teams.
- Then I'd come home, and there would be peewee soccer or Little League.
- It's like a peewee golf course for fishermen.
- Ferrell plays Phil, a peewee soccer coach driven to insanity by his scarily competitive relationship with his father.
- You can come, but I've got to have you home by six for peewee practice.
- This isn't peewee football, where teams are grouped into age categories because of the huge advantages older kids have (in size, strength, speed, and coordination) over younger ones.
- In the game's final 14 minutes, Gretzky did whatever he pleased, toying with the league's best as if they were a peewee team.
- Last season he coached the peewee team to the league title but fell to rivals Surrey and Richmond in the provincial playdowns.
- The top three in peewee barrel racing were Tyler Scherger, Wyatt Branden and Brecken Tulloch with times of 18.433, 19.136 and 19.194 seconds respectively.
- I hadn't done that in front of my dad since my last year in peewee football.
- The penultimate sibling in a brood of four girls and three boys reared by Karen Dawsey, Brackins is 9 when he first puts on football pads for a peewee league team.
- We were in the peewee semifinals for all of Ontario.
- He played T-ball, then moved on to peewee baseball, and played on the high school team since he was in seventh grade at the middle school.
- I would hold a team meeting and ask each of the rookies to recount the moments when they really came through under pressure - whether it was in peewee golf, college or on tour.
- He has been snapping so long - since his peewee days - that he knows how to grip the ball to make it spin into the holder's hands so the laces won't be a problem.
- Promotional costs - for example, sponsoring a peewee football team - are also deductible as long as there is a clear connection between the sponsorship and your business.
- I remember one time I scored seven goals in a peewee game when I was eight.
- He sponsors an Urban League girls basketball league and an AAU boys travel team, and he bought equipment last year for a peewee football team.
- 1.1 A player at peewee level of amateur sport.
Example sentencesExamples - They have beaten Western goliaths, such as the Spurs and Lakers, but have lost to peewees, such as the Bulls and Grizzlies.
- Taekwon-Do classes for peewees are held in the Leisure Centre on Mondays and Wednesday from 5 to 6pm.
2North American variant spelling of pewee
Origin Mid 19th century (in peewee (sense 3 of the noun)); peewee (sense 1 of the noun) is imitative; peewee (sense 2 of the noun, are from wee, by reduplication. |