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peewee

noun/ˈpiːwiː/

peewee: a short or small person; a small object
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What It Means

A short or small person; a small object.

A kind of small marble in children's games.

A player in a sports league for very young children.

Is five too young for peewee football?

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Peewee in Context

“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

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Did You Know?

Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).

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