Wee

/wiː/ · adjective

Meaning

(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand, Ottawa Valley, Mid-Ulster) Small, little..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand, Ottawa Valley, Mid-Ulster) Small, little.
2. A short time or short distance.
3. (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
4. (colloquial, countable) An act of urination.
5. (UK, colloquial) To urinate.
6. obsolete emphatic of we
7. Alternative form of whee.

Example Sentences

You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.

The beat of its wee heart held against her own, sent her intense maternity surging like the spring sap in a young tree.

Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.

I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.

"I suppose my first objective was to try and help a department, which was very much civil servants who are rotating around on a regular basis, to try and understand public transport a wee bit better and try and understand what was required to run a bus and rail network," muses Conway.

I need to have a wee.

Um, by the way, make sure everyone knows if the papal envoy says "We desire to wash our hands", that means he wants to go and have a pee (laugh track)... Yes, a Royal wee (laugh track) — followed by a Royal flush (laugh track).

I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!

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Word Forms

• weer
• weest
• wees
• weeing
• weed

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