Definitions
Very small; also used for the early hours after midnight.
Word origin
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).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Early hours”3 letters
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