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adjective, we·er, we·est.

little; very small.

very early: in the wee hours of the morning.

Origin:
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 weigh¹

Synonyms
1. tiny, diminutive; minuscule.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Example Sentences

In literature, the sets intersect a wee bit, but not much.

At some point during the wee hours of the final morning, a women jumped overboard to her death.

The tasting menu, a multi-course extravaganza of wee portions.

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In literature, the sets intersect a wee bit, but not much.

At some point during the wee hours of the final morning, a women jumped overboard to her death.

The tasting menu, a multi-course extravaganza of wee portions.

Wang showed me a snapshot of a wee kitten on her cell phone.

Ford is developing its smallest engine ever, a wee little three-cylinder mill with the displacement of a soda bottle.

It does get better when the baby taters get a wee bit older.

It takes time to build mutual trust, particularly when one party was forsaken by the other in the wee hours of need.

The fajã itself, with its wee chapel, is networked by narrow lanes hemmed in by lava stone walls.

The male goes through the same process of nurturing and caring for its wee little parasite babies that the female would.

Sure, you can throw the ball around with the wee ones or reconnect with that pickup basketball league you've been putting off.

Quite a few emperors are looking a wee bit naked as a result.

Still on the subject of swearing as part of language, a couple of other references came to mind in the wee hours.

The trickier part is figuring out when you should show your wee geek which movies.

Professional colleges continue to have a relatively strong demand, though the recession put a wee damper on that.

After all, many hotels have ballrooms for weddings and such that go into wee hours of the morning.

But even in a population of intrepid adrenaline addicts, finding recruits for that mission might be a wee bit tough.

His main pastime seems to be playing penny slots in the wee hours of the morning.

Make wee robots out of simple, strong, engineered diamond.

It's easy to get caught up in the media blitz and to constantly worry about your wee ones.

Since baseball can be slow moving at times, keeping score can help you and a wee one maintain concentration and interest.

It is already available online and will be printed in a wee bit.

Yes, these wee wonders have broken into the mainstream and are now considered legit devices.

It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce.

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World English Dictionary

wee¹ (wiː)

—*adj*
1.	very small; tiny; minute

—n
2.	chiefly (Scot) a short time (esp in the phrase bide a wee.)

[C13: from Old English wǣgweight]

wee² (wiː)

—n
1.	a. the act or an instance of urinating
	b. urine

—vb
2.	(intr) to urinate

[of unknown origin]

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Word Origin & History

wee

"extremely small," c.1450, from earlier noun use in sense of "quantity, amount" (cf. a littel wei "a little thing or amount," c.1300), from O.E. wæge "weight" (see weigh). Adj. use wee bit apparently developed as parallel to such forms as a bit thing "a little thing."

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Wee hours is attested by 1891, from Scot. wee sma' hours (1787, Burns). Wee folk "faeries" is recorded from 1819. Weeny "tiny, small" is from 1790.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

WEE
western equine encephalomyelitis

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