Define:Wee

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wē, /wiː/,

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• Audio (US) 
• Rhymes: -iː

1. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/homophones (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle Inglis

< Old English

wǣge

, related to Old English

(15c).

Adjective

1. Template:Scottish small, little

Translations

small, little

• Dutch: klein (nl), petieterig, pietepeuterig
• Finnish: pikkuruinen
• French: petit (fr)
• Georgian: პაწაწა, პაწაწინა, პაწაწკინტელა
• German: winzig (de), klein (de)
• Hebrew: קטן‎ (he) m (katán)

• Hungarian: apró (hu), csöpp
• Irish: beag
• Italian: piccolo (it)
• Portuguese: pequeno (pt)
• Spanish: pequeño (es)
• Turkish: küçük (tr)

References

• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

1. (colloquial, Template:Context 2) urine
2. Template:Colloquial An act of urination.

   to have a wee

Synonyms

• wee wee
• See also Wikisaurus:urine
• See also Wikisaurus:urination

Translations

urine

• Dutch: pis (nl) m, urine (nl) f
• Finnish: pissa (fi)
• French: pipi (fr) m
• German: Pipi (de) n
• Italian: pipì f

• Japanese: おしっこ (ja) (oshikko)
• Kurdish: میز‎
• Norwegian: tiss (no) n
• Turkish: çiş (tr), sidik (tr)

act of urination

• Dutch: plas (nl) m
• Finnish: pissaaminen

• Kurdish: میز کردن‎
• Norwegian: tisse

Verb

Wee (third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past an past participle weed)

1. Template:Colloquial To urinate.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:urinate

Translations

to urinate

• Dutch: plassen (nl), pipi doen, wateren (nl), pissen (nl), urineren (nl)
• Finnish: pissata (fi), pissiä (fi)
• French: faire pipi (fr)
• German: pinkeln (de), pissen (de), Pipi machen (de)
• Italian: fare la pipì

• Kurdish: میز کردن‎
• Russian: писать (ru) (písat’) Template:Impf (homograph with писать (pisát’) - to write), пописать (ru) (popísat’) Template:Pf.
• Spanish: hacer pis (es)
• Turkish: çiş yapma, işeme

Anagrams

• ewe, Ewe

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Dutch

Etymology

From Template:Proto. Compare Old English wā (English woe), Old High German wē (German weh), Old Norse vei.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) [ʋeː]
• (Belgium) [weː]

Adjective

Wee (not comparable)

1. nauseating

Noun

1. Contraction during labour or childbirth.

   De weeën beginnen!

   The baby’s coming!

2. Sorrow, sadness, pain, woe; archaic unless used as an interjection of despair or annoyance.

   O wee, wat zal er van ons worden.

   Oh my, what’s going to happen with us.

Derived terms

• (sorrow): o wee, ach en wee, heimwee

Anagrams

• Ewe

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Scots

Pronunciation

• enPR: wē, /wiː/,

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Adjective

Wee (comparative mair Wee, superlative maist Wee)

1. small, little

Usage notes

Used in both the standard Scots and Ulster Scots dialect.