wee

[US]/wiː/
[UK]/wi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. tiny
n. a tiny bit

Phrases & Collocations

a wee bit

wee hours

wee small hours

wee lad

Example Sentences

a couthy wee tavern.

he's just a wee laddie.

you can't blame the wee fella.

when I was just a wee bairn.

a wee bit better. large

the wee hours of the morning.

Mummy, I need a wee.

a wee dram to ward off the winter chill.

weed out unqualified applicants.

Tomorrow I have to weed the garden.

The dodder is one kind of annual autoecious weed of alfalfa, cosmopolitan weed quarantine object.

He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water.

I lay awake through the wee small hours,waiting for the signal.

he's away cogging his homework from Aggie's wee girl.

viper's bugloss (=blue weed)

The pollen of the weed is the main sensibiligen of hay fever in human.

we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work.

It can weed perfectly,over 90% of the ruderal was weeded;

Real-world Examples

" Yeah, let's do that, I need a wee as well, " says Parvaneh.

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

Once upon a time there was a wee, wee lambkin.

Source: American Elementary School English 1

I won't be home till the wee hours.

Source: Deadly Women

He looked like a wee, wee man; and yet such a strange man!

Source: American Elementary School English 3

They need a wee bit of training.

Source: CNN 10 Student English September 2021 Collection

" Only last week was my sweet wee wean baptized! "

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 4

She gets a wee cut of my sales.

Source: Lost Girl Season 2

My charming fam? Also a wee bit racist.

Source: Lost Girl Season 2

Come home in the wee hours of the morning? Oh, yeah.

Source: American English dialogue

Don't you think this is a wee bit too much?

Source: VOA One Minute English

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