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peewee, pee-wee|ˈpiːwiː|
[Echoic, from the cry of the bird.]
1. Sc. A lapwing: = pewit.
1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxii. 213 The moorfowl and the peewees crying upon it. 1894Crockett Raiders 384 The spotted eggs o' the pee-wees.
2. A name in New South Wales for the Magpie Lark, Grallina cyanoleuca.
1898[see mudlark n. 3 c]. 1911Lucas & Le Souëf Birds Austral. 340 The familiar shrill and rather whistling cry gives it [sc. the magpie lark] the common name of the Pee-wee or Pee-wit. 1947Coast to Coast 1946 27 He can see a black-and-white bird, a pee-wee, that runs along the path between the rushes. 1956A. Bell Some Common Austral. Birds 96 The Pee-wee is vigorous and unusually widespread. 1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 119 There was a peewee that visited him often through the day.
3. Applied to a small child. Also, usu. attrib. or as adj., small, tiny, composed of children, and transf. of animals or things, and fig. (attrib.) (N. Amer. and dial.).
1877F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 106/1 Pee⁓wee, adj. small; diminutive. 1894H. H. Gardener Unoff. Patriot 169 She can play with those two peewees of Miller's, while he and I look over the stock and drive about the place a little. 1930Amer. Speech VI. 133 Peewee soft song man, petty confidence worker. 1935Ibid. X. 271/2 Peewees, small, stunted pigs or lambs. 1936Time 6 Apr. 45/1 Merciless, ignorant, lecherous, full of peewee patriotics, he wages senseless war against the Hill People. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) vi. 69 A peewee jockey whose onliest riding crop was a stick of marihuana. 1952Daily News (N.Y.) 13 Aug. C 16/3 The Bantams, an organization of men who are what they themselves call ‘peewees and proud or it’ with 5 [foot] 4 [inch]..Lenny Herman as spokesman. 1958Cut Knife (Saskatchewan) Grinder 6 Feb. 1/5 The Cut Knife Pee Wees were hosts to the Unity team and defeated them. 1965Western Wonderland (Seattle) Apr. 22/1 The nine sorting categories [of logs]..are: hemlock; sawlogs..peewees..and lastly, boomsticks. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 44 Suburban Duberger defeated nearby Vanier 4–2..in the ninth annual international pee-wee hockey tournament. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 90 Pee wee, small; a very narrowly rolled marijuana cigarette. 1973New York 26 Mar. 52/2 Why should the Rangers concern themselves with Cub Scouts and peewee players. Ibid. 54/3 With the sportswriters giving better notices to the peewees. 1975New Yorker 12 May 113/1 All he comes up with is a cosmetic trick—a peewee Watergate analogy—by using the blunder as evidence that the producer whom Tod works for is corrupt.
b. spec. A small marble.
1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 246 Pee-wee, the name given by boys to a little marble. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 383 Pey-wey, a very small marble. 1902Farmer & Henley Slang V. 160/2 Pee-wee... 3. (school).—A small marble. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 53 Peewee, a small yellow marble. 1951J. Frame Lagoon 122, I had pee-wees and bully taws and changers that weren't made of glass.
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