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wee

AdjektivSubstantivSubstantivVerbPronomenInterjektionhäufig in Dialogen

  • //wiː//

Small, little.

Adjektiv

  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.

    Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.

    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.

Herkunft

From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A short time or short distance.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Urine.

  2. 2

    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).

Herkunft

Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.

Verb

  1. 1

    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.

Pronomen

  1. 1

    Variante von weveraltetobsolete 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.

Herkunft

See we.

Interjektion

  1. 1

    The squeal of a pig.

    Pigling Bland became frightened and cried "Wee, wee, wee! I can't find my way home!"

  2. 2

    Variante von wheeAlternative form of whee.

Formen

Plural
wees
Komparativ
weer
Superlativ
weest
Präteritum
weed
Partizip II
weed
Partizip I
weeing
3. Person Singular
wees
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