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pee-wee

pee-wee is the alternative spelling of peewee.

Meaning of peewee

Noun (1)

peewee (plural peewees)

  1. (informal) A short or small person; a small object.
  2. A kind of small marble in children's games.
    • You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  3. (US) A player in a sports league for very young children.
    • Is five too young for peewee football?

Noun (2)

peewee (plural peewees)

  1. (Australia, New South Wales and Queensland) A magpie-lark or mudlark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
    • A large flock of black and white peewees—magpie larks—passed over our heads from a patch of mangrove[…].1939, Francis Ratcliffe, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia, page 43
  2. (US) A pewee.

Noun (1)

pee-wee (plural pee-wees)

  1. The lapwing.

Noun (2)

pee-wee (plural pee-wees)

  1. An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.

Forms of pee-wee

pluralpee-wees

Origin of pee-wee

Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).

Probably onomatopoeia from the birds' songs.

Questions about pee-wee

What does pee-wee mean?
Pee-wee means the lapwing.
What is pee-wee the alternative spelling of?
Pee-wee is the alternative spelling of peewee.
What part of speech is pee-wee?
Pee-wee is a noun.
What is the plural of pee-wee?
The plural of pee-wee is pee-wees.

Words near pee-wee in the dictionary

  1. pee-peeing
  2. pee-pees
  3. pee-pot
  4. pee-pots
  5. pee-shy
  6. pee-wee
  7. pee-wees
  8. pee-yew
  9. pee-you
  10. peeanies
  11. peeany

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