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单词 wee
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wee

adjective
/wiː/
/wiː/
(informal)Idioms
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  1. (especially Scottish English) very small in size
    • a wee girl
    • Who was that wee lassie who was here last night?
  2. 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.
  3. 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
the wee small hours (Scottish English)
(North American English the wee hours)
(also the early/small hours British and North American English)
  1. 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.

wee

noun
/wiː/
/wiː/
(also wee-wee)
(informal, especially British English) often used by young children or when you are talking to them
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  1. [singular] an act of passing liquid waste (called urine) from your body
    • to do/have a wee
    • I’m going for a wee.
    • Mummy, I need a wee.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + wee
    • do
    • have
    • take
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  2. [uncountable] urine (= the waste liquid that collects in the bladder and that you pass from your body)
    • a puddle of wee
  3. Word Originnoun 1930s: imitative.

wee

verb
/wiː/
/wiː/
(also wee-wee)
[intransitive] (informal, especially British English) often used by young children or when you are talking to them
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they wee
/wiː/
/wiː/
he / she / it wees
/wiːz/
/wiːz/
past simple weed
/wiːd/
/wiːd/
past participle weed
/wiːd/
/wiːd/
-ing form weeing
/ˈwiːɪŋ/
/ˈwiːɪŋ/
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  1. to pass liquid waste (called urine) from the body
    • Do you need to wee?
    Word Originverb 1930s: imitative.
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