- (especially Scottish English) very small in size
- a wee girl
- Who was that wee lassie who was here last night?
- small in amount; little
- Just a wee drop of milk for me.
- I felt a wee bit guilty about it.
Extra Examples- I might be a wee bit late.
- Come inside for a wee dram.
Word Originadjective Middle English (originally a noun use in Scots, usually as a little wee ‘a little bit’): from Old English wēg(e) ‘balance, weight’, of Germanic origin.
Idioms
See wee in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe wee small hours (Scottish English)
(North American English the wee hours)
(also the early/small hours British and North American English)
- the period of time very early in the morning, soon after midnight
- We danced into the wee small hours of the morning.
- I woke in the wee hours.
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