wee
/wiː/
wee adjective: small, little. Also the obsolete emphatic of we.
Adjective
wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)
- Small, little.
- 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.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 275
Noun (1)
wee
Noun (2)
wee (countable and uncountable, plural wees)
- Urine.
- An act of urination.
- 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).1987 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Diplomatic Incident”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds)
Verb
wee (third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed)
Interjection
- The squeal of a pig.
- Pigling Bland became frightened and cried "Wee, wee, wee! I can't find my way home!"1913, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Pigling Bland
Noun (3) capitalized: WEE
WEE (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of Western equine encephalomyelitis.
Proper noun capitalized: Wee
Wee (countable and uncountable, plural Wees)
- A surname.
Also used as
wee is also the obsolete emphatic of we.
wee is also the alternative form of whee.
wee meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Persian
wee in Urdu
- small, little
- چھوٹی čhōṭī
wee in Persian
- small, little
- کوچولو kučulu
Examples of wee in a sentence
- 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.1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242:
- I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 73:
Synonyms of wee
Forms of wee
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | weer |
| superlative | weest |
| Noun | |
| plural | wees |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wees |
| present participle | weeing |
| past participle | weed |
| past | weed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wees |
Origin of wee
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).
Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.
See we.
Words formed from wee
Phrases with wee
Words that rhyme with wee
Questions about wee
- What does wee mean?
- Wee means small, little.
- What is wee in Urdu?
- Wee in Urdu is چھوٹی (čhōṭī). See Wee meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use wee in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is wee?
- Wee can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce wee?
- Wee is pronounced /wiː/.
Words near wee in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wee (page history and authors); WEE (page history and authors); Wee (page history and authors); wee (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wee (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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