wee

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wee [wee wees weed weeing] adjective, noun, verb BrE [wiː] NAmE [wiː]
adjective (informal)
1. (especially ScotE)very small in size
•a wee girl
2. small in amount; little
•Just a wee drop of milk for me.
•I felt a wee bit guilty about it.

Word Origin:
adj. Middle English Scots a little wee ‘a little bit’ Old English wēg(e) ‘balance, weight’ Germanic n. and v. 1930s

Example Bank:
•Come inside for a wee dram.
•I might be a wee bit late.
•Who was that wee lassie who was here last night?
Idiom: ↑wee small hours
 
noun (also ˈwee-wee) (informal, especially BrE) (often used by young children or when you are talking to them)
1. singular an act of passing liquid waste (called ↑urine) from your body
•to do/have a wee
2. uncountable = ↑urine
•a puddle of wee

Word Origin:
adj. Middle English Scots a little wee ‘a little bit’ Old English wēg(e) ‘balance, weight’ Germanic n. and v. 1930s

Example Bank:
•I'm going for a wee.
•Mummy, I need a wee.

 
verb (also ˈwee-wee)intransitive (informal, especially BrE) (often used by young children or when you are talking to them)
to pass liquid waste (called ↑urine) from the body
•Do you need to wee?
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
adj. Middle English Scots a little wee ‘a little bit’ Old English wēg(e) ‘balance, weight’ Germanic n. and v. 1930s
 
See also: ↑wee hours ▪ ↑wee-wee