wee

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

   A short time or short distance.

3. 3

   Urine.

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   1. 4

      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).
   2. 5

      To urinate.

      • I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!
      • When I was young, I was up every night until the wee hours. Now I'm up every hour at night to wee.
   3. 6

      obsolete emphatic of we

      • 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.
   4. 7

      Alternative form of whee.

   5. 8

      A surname.

   6. 9

      Abbreviation of Western equine encephalomyelitis.

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