peeween.¹

Brit.

/ˈpiːwiː/, U.S.

/ˈpiˌwi/

Forms: 1700s– pewee, 1800s– peewee.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative of the bird's call. Compare slightly earlier peewit n. 3. With sense 3 compare earlier peewit n., peesweep n. See further discussion s.v. peewit n.

1. Chiefly North American. Originally and usually in form pewee. Any of several tyrant flycatchers; now spec. one of the genus Contopus, with dark olive-grey plumage. Cf. peewit n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > genus Sayornis

Phoebe1700

peewit1791

peewee1793

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > genus Contopus (pewit)

peewit1791

peewee1793

1793 J. Morse Amer. Univ. Geogr. (new ed.) I. 191 Towhe Bird, Pewee, Cheeweeh. Fringilla erythrophthalma.

1810 A. Wilson Let. 28 Apr. in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 199 A pewee had fixed her nest..on a projecting shelf of the rock.

1869 Galaxy Mag. Aug. 171 The common pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note, and its exquisite mossy nest.

1878 Amer. Naturalist 12 124 For about forty years the peewee flycatcher (Sayornis fuscus) has nested under my portico.

1928 B. S. Aldrich Lantern 168 One could hear..the pee-wee calling his own name with plaintive patience.

1969 W. Berry Recoll. Ess. (1980) 39 In the clearing around the house the phoebes and pewees call from their lookout perches.

2001 High Country News 30 July 2/3 Pewees are small gray birds that usually hang out at much higher elevations than this.

2. Australian. The magpie lark, Grallina cyanoleuca; = mudlark n. 3b, Murray magpie n. at Murray n.¹ 8.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > grallina cyanoleuca (magpie lark)

magpie lark1843

peewee1879

mudlark1898

Murray magpie1940

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. 232 In the morning..the dull monotonous double note of the whee-whee (so named from the sound of its calls), chiming in at as regular intervals as the tick of a clock.]

1879 Sydney Mail 16 Aug. 273/1 The bird mentioned in the second schedule of the Game Act as a magpie thrush is a small black-and-white bird, commonly called peewee on account of its cry.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 278/1 Magpie-Lark..an Australian black-and-white bird..resembling the Magpie in appearance, but smaller; called also Pee-wee, and Mudlark, from its building its nest of mud.

1947 Coast to Coast 1946 27 He can see a black-and-white bird, a pee-wee, that runs along the path between the rushes.

1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 119 There was a peewee that visited him often through the day.

2003 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 1 Nov. 18 Bulimba is Aboriginal for place of the magpie lark or peewee.

3. Scottish and Irish English. The lapwing, Vanellus vanellus. Cf. peewit n. 1.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing)

lapwingc1050

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tewhita1525

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flapjack1847

teeack1869

flop-wing1885

peewee1886

silver plover1890

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxii. 213 The moorfowl and the peewees crying upon it.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 384 The spotted eggs o' the pee-wees.

1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 30 Oct. 15 The lapwing or peewit or even peewee is surely one of the most graceful of birds: greenish-black on top, white underneath and with that most distinctive plume.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

peeween.²adj.

Brit.

/ˈpiːwiː/, U.S.

/ˈpiˌwi/

Forms: 1800s peywey, 1800s– peewee, 1900s– pewee. Also as two words.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: wee adj.

Etymology: Reduplication (with variation of the initial consonant) of wee adj. Compare Caribbean and (subsequently) U.S. slang peeny small, and peeny-wally n. Compare also teeny-weeny adj.Perhaps influenced by earlier peewee n.¹ T. Wales Sussex as She wus Spoke (2000) records local use of peewits for small marbles (compare sense A. 1), perhaps by assimilation to the bird name.

A. n.²

1. A small marble.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of

nicker1675

alley1720

blood alley1821

commoney1837

Rouge Royal1837

peewee1848

stoney1856

knicker1860

bonce1862

plunker1863

dobber1875

agate1886

mig1886

glassy1887

miggle1890

shooter1892

aggie1896

knuckler1896

milkie1908

ghoen1913

miggie1916

immy1928

glarney1953

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Pee-wee, the name given by boys to a little marble.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 383 Pey-wey, a very small marble.

1933 N. Scanlan Tides of Youth 153 She used to give you marbles for being a good little boy—pee-wees and agates, and stonies and glassies and a big tor.

1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 10 Nov. 12 We have a collection of old marbles including about 100 blueberry-size peewees.

2001 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 31 Oct. Some must hit peewees—tiny ball-bearings—to win the reward of the grand-daddy of the marble family, the godfather.

2. Chiefly North American colloquial.

a. A small child; (now frequently) spec. a child involved in amateur sport at the peewee level (see sense B. 2).

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the world > people > person > child > [noun]

wenchelc890

childeOE

littleOE

littlingOE

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smalla1300

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chickc1330

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tacker1885

chavvy1886

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toddleskin1890

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littlie1893

peewee1894

tyke1894

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kiddo1896

mother's bairn1896

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kipper1905

pick1905

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God forbid1909

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subadolescent1914

toto1914

snookums1919

tweenie1919

problem child1920

squirt1924

trottie1924

tiddler1927

subteen1929

perisher1935

poopsie1937

pre-schooler1937

pre-teen1938

pre-teener1940

juvie1941

sprog1944

pikkie1945

subteenager1947

pre-teenager1948

pint-size1954

saucepan lid1960

rug rat1964

smallie1984

bosom-child-

1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial 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.

1958 Cut Knife (Sask.) Grinder 6 Feb. 1/5 The Cut Knife Pee Wees were hosts to the Unity team and defeated them.

1977 Time 8 Aug. 28/2 Andrea McArdle, 13, star of the Broadway musical Annie, led her pint-size cast onto the softball diamond against the peewees of Paramount Pictures's forthcoming kiddy sequel.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 June 18/2 As a peewee in short pants, I was no help to Papa in his work as a builder.

2000 Canberra Sunday Times 11 June 84/5 Women's karate and self-defence, 11am-noon, peewees 6pm-6.30pm.

b. Any unusually small person, animal, etc. Frequently spec. (see quots. 1935, 1965, 1965).

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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person

dwarfeOE

congeonc1230

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smalla1300

shrimpc1386

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Jack Sprat1570

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Tom Thumb1579

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niff-naff1808

titman1818

teetotum1822

squita1825

cradden1825

nyaff1825

weed1825

pinkeen1850

fingerling1864

Lilliput1867

thumbling1867

midget1869

inch1884

shorty1888

titch1888

skimpling1890

stub1890

scrap1898

pygmoid1922

lofty1933

peewee1935

smidgen1952

pint-size1954

pint-sized1973

munchkin1974

1935 Amer. Speech 10 271/2 Peewees, small, stunted pigs or lambs.

1952 Daily News (N.Y.) 13 Aug. c16/3 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.

1965 Western Wonderland (Seattle) Apr. 22/1 The nine sorting categories [of logs]..are: hemlock; sawlogs..peewees..and lastly, boomsticks.

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 90 Pee wee,..a very narrowly rolled marijuana cigarette.

1996 Fortune (Nexis) 13 May 30 The new curb has attracted peewees, from microbreweries to a maker of low-pollution car engines.

B. adj.

1. colloquial. Very small, tiny; insignificant, inconsequential. Chiefly North American in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > composed of children

peewee1877

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective]

smallOE

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litec1275

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liddle1906

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pint-size1925

peedie1929

tenas1935

itsy-bitsy1938

itty-bitty1940

titchy1950

scrappy1985

1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 106/1 Pee~wee, adj. small; diminutive.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. iv. 360 Oh we none of us know what we want... That's why we're such a peewee generation.

1940 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 14 June ii. 1 (cartoon caption) Didn't we make a nice looking couple! And how proud you were of that peewee moustache!

1975 New Yorker 12 May 113/1 All he comes up with is a cosmetic trick—a peewee Watergate analogy.

2000 T. Robbins Fierce Invalids 69 So, ‘To the Hotel Boquichicos!’ he cried, waving like a battle flag Suzy's peewee brassiere.

2. Sport (originally and chiefly North American). Designating or belonging to a level of amateur sport involving young children.

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1941 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 16 Dec. 10/1 It appears as though there will be no Pee Wee hockey here this winter.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 44 Suburban Duberger defeated nearby Vanier 4–2..in the ninth annual international pee-wee hockey tournament.

1973 New York 26 Mar. 52/2 Why should the Rangers concern themselves with Cub Scouts and peewee players.

1991 Times (Nexis) 13 July He managed this double miracle while playing in a revoltingly named ‘peewee competition’ at Simrishamn in southern Sweden.

2003 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 13 Dec. 13 The Game Day of Champions began with a peewee game between the Suncoast Country Jr. Cougars and the St. Pete 'Lil Devils.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	peewee
释义	peeween.¹ Brit. /ˈpiːwiː/, U.S. /ˈpiˌwi/ Forms: 1700s– pewee, 1800s– peewee. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative of the bird's call. Compare slightly earlier peewit n. 3. With sense 3 compare earlier peewit n., peesweep n. See further discussion s.v. peewit n. 1. Chiefly North American. Originally and usually in form pewee. Any of several tyrant flycatchers; now spec. one of the genus Contopus, with dark olive-grey plumage. Cf. peewit n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > genus Sayornis Phoebe1700 peewit1791 peewee1793 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > genus Contopus (pewit) peewit1791 peewee1793 1793 J. Morse Amer. Univ. Geogr. (new ed.) I. 191 Towhe Bird, Pewee, Cheeweeh. Fringilla erythrophthalma. 1810 A. Wilson Let. 28 Apr. in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 199 A pewee had fixed her nest..on a projecting shelf of the rock. 1869 Galaxy Mag. Aug. 171 The common pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note, and its exquisite mossy nest. 1878 Amer. Naturalist 12 124 For about forty years the peewee flycatcher (Sayornis fuscus) has nested under my portico. 1928 B. S. Aldrich Lantern 168 One could hear..the pee-wee calling his own name with plaintive patience. 1969 W. Berry Recoll. Ess. (1980) 39 In the clearing around the house the phoebes and pewees call from their lookout perches. 2001 High Country News 30 July 2/3 Pewees are small gray birds that usually hang out at much higher elevations than this. 2. Australian. The magpie lark, Grallina cyanoleuca; = mudlark n. 3b, Murray magpie n. at Murray n.¹ 8. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > grallina cyanoleuca (magpie lark) magpie lark1843 peewee1879 mudlark1898 Murray magpie1940 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. 232 In the morning..the dull monotonous double note of the whee-whee (so named from the sound of its calls), chiming in at as regular intervals as the tick of a clock.] 1879 Sydney Mail 16 Aug. 273/1 The bird mentioned in the second schedule of the Game Act as a magpie thrush is a small black-and-white bird, commonly called peewee on account of its cry. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 278/1 Magpie-Lark..an Australian black-and-white bird..resembling the Magpie in appearance, but smaller; called also Pee-wee, and Mudlark, from its building its nest of mud. 1947 Coast to Coast 1946 27 He can see a black-and-white bird, a pee-wee, that runs along the path between the rushes. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 119 There was a peewee that visited him often through the day. 2003 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 1 Nov. 18 Bulimba is Aboriginal for place of the magpie lark or peewee. 3. Scottish and Irish English. The lapwing, Vanellus vanellus. Cf. peewit n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing) lapwingc1050 wypec1325 tewhita1525 peewita1529 black plover1538 bastard plover1544 green plover1550 lappoint1584 peesweep1772 peeweepa1825 lapwing-gull1844 flapjack1847 teeack1869 flop-wing1885 peewee1886 silver plover1890 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxii. 213 The moorfowl and the peewees crying upon it. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 384 The spotted eggs o' the pee-wees. 1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 30 Oct. 15 The lapwing or peewit or even peewee is surely one of the most graceful of birds: greenish-black on top, white underneath and with that most distinctive plume. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peeween.²adj. Brit. /ˈpiːwiː/, U.S. /ˈpiˌwi/ Forms: 1800s peywey, 1800s– peewee, 1900s– pewee. Also as two words. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: wee adj. Etymology: Reduplication (with variation of the initial consonant) of wee adj. Compare Caribbean and (subsequently) U.S. slang peeny small, and peeny-wally n. Compare also teeny-weeny adj.Perhaps influenced by earlier peewee n.¹ T. Wales Sussex as She wus Spoke (2000) records local use of peewits for small marbles (compare sense A. 1), perhaps by assimilation to the bird name. A. n.² 1. A small marble. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of nicker1675 alley1720 blood alley1821 commoney1837 Rouge Royal1837 peewee1848 stoney1856 knicker1860 bonce1862 plunker1863 dobber1875 agate1886 mig1886 glassy1887 miggle1890 shooter1892 aggie1896 knuckler1896 milkie1908 ghoen1913 miggie1916 immy1928 glarney1953 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Pee-wee, the name given by boys to a little marble. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 383 Pey-wey, a very small marble. 1933 N. Scanlan Tides of Youth 153 She used to give you marbles for being a good little boy—pee-wees and agates, and stonies and glassies and a big tor. 1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 10 Nov. 12 We have a collection of old marbles including about 100 blueberry-size peewees. 2001 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 31 Oct. Some must hit peewees—tiny ball-bearings—to win the reward of the grand-daddy of the marble family, the godfather. 2. Chiefly North American colloquial. a. A small child; (now frequently) spec. a child involved in amateur sport at the peewee level (see sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- 1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial 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. 1958 Cut Knife (Sask.) Grinder 6 Feb. 1/5 The Cut Knife Pee Wees were hosts to the Unity team and defeated them. 1977 Time 8 Aug. 28/2 Andrea McArdle, 13, star of the Broadway musical Annie, led her pint-size cast onto the softball diamond against the peewees of Paramount Pictures's forthcoming kiddy sequel. 1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 June 18/2 As a peewee in short pants, I was no help to Papa in his work as a builder. 2000 Canberra Sunday Times 11 June 84/5 Women's karate and self-defence, 11am-noon, peewees 6pm-6.30pm. b. Any unusually small person, animal, etc. Frequently spec. (see quots. 1935, 1965, 1965). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 1935 Amer. Speech 10 271/2 Peewees, small, stunted pigs or lambs. 1952 Daily News (N.Y.) 13 Aug. c16/3 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. 1965 Western Wonderland (Seattle) Apr. 22/1 The nine sorting categories [of logs]..are: hemlock; sawlogs..peewees..and lastly, boomsticks. 1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 90 Pee wee,..a very narrowly rolled marijuana cigarette. 1996 Fortune (Nexis) 13 May 30 The new curb has attracted peewees, from microbreweries to a maker of low-pollution car engines. B. adj. 1. colloquial. Very small, tiny; insignificant, inconsequential. Chiefly North American in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > composed of children peewee1877 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] smallOE littleOE litec1275 a little wightc1275 petitc1390 weea1525 pusill1599 slender1610 lile1633 scantling1652 piccaninny1707 pinkie1718 insignificant1748 baby1750 leetle1755 tiddy1781 bit1786 inconsiderable1796 itty1798 peerie1808 tittya1825 titty-tottya1825 ickle1846 tiddly1868 peewee1877 lil1881 shirttail1881 inextensive1890 puny1898 liddle1906 pint-sized1921 pint-size1925 peedie1929 tenas1935 itsy-bitsy1938 itty-bitty1940 titchy1950 scrappy1985 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 106/1 Pee~wee, adj. small; diminutive. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. iv. 360 Oh we none of us know what we want... That's why we're such a peewee generation. 1940 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 14 June ii. 1 (cartoon caption) Didn't we make a nice looking couple! And how proud you were of that peewee moustache! 1975 New Yorker 12 May 113/1 All he comes up with is a cosmetic trick—a peewee Watergate analogy. 2000 T. Robbins Fierce Invalids 69 So, ‘To the Hotel Boquichicos!’ he cried, waving like a battle flag Suzy's peewee brassiere. 2. Sport (originally and chiefly North American). Designating or belonging to a level of amateur sport involving young children. ΚΠ 1941 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 16 Dec. 10/1 It appears as though there will be no Pee Wee hockey here this winter. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 44 Suburban Duberger defeated nearby Vanier 4–2..in the ninth annual international pee-wee hockey tournament. 1973 New York 26 Mar. 52/2 Why should the Rangers concern themselves with Cub Scouts and peewee players. 1991 Times (Nexis) 13 July He managed this double miracle while playing in a revoltingly named ‘peewee competition’ at Simrishamn in southern Sweden. 2003 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 13 Dec. 13 The Game Day of Champions began with a peewee game between the Suncoast Country Jr. Cougars and the St. Pete 'Lil Devils. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > see also also refers to : pee-ween.³ < n.¹1793n.²adj.1848 see also
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