Meaning

3 senses
  1. A short time or short distance.

    a short time

  2. (colloquial, uncountable)Urine.

    Pipi

  3. (colloquial, countable)An act of urination.

    I need to have a wee.

Examples

394 sentences
  1. I helped Tom weed the garden.

    Я допоміг Тому прополоти в городі.

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  2. I have to weed the garden.

    ruЯ должен пропалывать сад.

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  3. We helped Tom weed the garden.

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  4. I wish Tom would weed the garden.

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  5. I hired Tom to weed our garden.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
urine:

Origin

From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġ

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).

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

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Forms

plural: wees
Singularwee
Pluralwees

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
all senses:wee-wee
urine:urine
urination:urination

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wee — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto