wee

adjective

/wiː/

(informal)Idioms

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(especially Scottish English) very small in size
- a wee girl
- Who was that wee lassie who was here last night?
small in amount; little
- Just a wee drop of milk for me.
- I felt a wee bit guilty about it.
Extra Examples
- I might be a wee bit late.
- Come inside for a wee dram.

Word Originadjective Middle English (originally a noun use in Scots, usually as a little wee ‘a little bit’): from Old English wēg(e) ‘balance, weight’, of Germanic origin.

Idioms

the wee small hours (Scottish English)

(North American English the wee hours)

(also the early/small hours British and North American English)

the period of time very early in the morning, soon after midnight
- We danced into the wee small hours of the morning.
- I woke in the wee hours.

wee

noun

/wiː/

(also wee-wee)

(informal, especially British English) often used by young children or when you are talking to them

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[singular] an act of passing liquid waste (called urine) from your body
- to do/have a wee
- I’m going for a wee.
- Mummy, I need a wee.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verb + wee
- do
- have
- take
- …
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[uncountable] urine (= the waste liquid that collects in the bladder and that you pass from your body)
- a puddle of wee

Word Originnoun 1930s: imitative.

wee

verb

/wiː/

(also wee-wee)

[intransitive] (informal, especially British English) often used by young children or when you are talking to them

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they wee	/wiː/ /wiː/
he / she / it wees	/wiːz/ /wiːz/
past simple weed	/wiːd/ /wiːd/
past participle weed	/wiːd/ /wiːd/
-ing form weeing	/ˈwiːɪŋ/ /ˈwiːɪŋ/

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to pass liquid waste (called urine) from the body
- Do you need to wee?
Word Originverb 1930s: imitative.

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