wee
/wiː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A short time or short distance.
intj
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."
Etymology
From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).