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comparative weer, superlative weest
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little. quotations examples
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
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.
2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 73
A short time or short distance. examples
countable and uncountable, plural wees
(colloquial, uncountable) Urine. examples
(colloquial, countable) An act of urination. examples
third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed
(UK, colloquial) To urinate. quotations examples
When I was young, I was up every night until the wee hours. Now I'm up every hour at night to wee.
2011 March 15, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
personal pronoun
obsolete emphatic of we quotations examples
Yet lest wee should be Capernaitans, as wee are told there that the flesh profiteth nothing, so wee are told heer, if we be not as deaf as adders, that this union of the flesh proceeds from the union of a fit help and solace.
1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon