Search for words

Refine search criteria

Choose an word from the list. Use the scroll bar to see all the words.
Fill up the form below to narrow your search. Use the scroll bar to see the submit button.
Speaker and interview
Word or expression

 

Locations Map

Search Results...

There are 20 examples displayed out of 96 filtered.

Wee

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1400, OED Evaluation: Originally Scottish

A little or young thing

ExampleMeaning
And just down a wee bit on that left hand side as you're going down that way. There used to be a beautiful home in there that Mister-Frederick lived in, they tore it down, put a motel in there.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
I suppose so, yeah. Well when I'd left- no, no that- I'm jumping ahead of myself a wee bit here. I went to diamond-drilling
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
And Scottish terminology, "wee bairn" and-things-such-as-that that, ah, I grew up, ah listening to. Ah, they never did- my grandmother particularly never did lose her accent completely. Even though she was here for many, many years. My grandfather lost it a bit. My father and ah uncles and- two uncles on that side never had the accent whatsoever.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, you-know it was- i-- I l-- we lived in a little wee house that was maybe- maybe four-hundred-square-feet. It was a tiny little house.
Small, little
So the- so the leprechauns would go through the house and there'd be a trail all the way through and at the end would be ah the treasure- the- the little green box and it would be full of- full of little wee green treasure things
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
And I had- one of my sons was al-- ha-- ha-- al-- had allergies. So ah, there was no pets. The only pet I think we had was a turtle. Was little wee turtles (laughs).
Small, little
Speaker: So the day I quit working she came over, gave me the puppy and gave me all the papers and she said, "She's yours." So she ga-- Interviewer: That must have been the most wonderful experience. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, she was just a little wee thing. She was just a year old.
Small, little
Yeah, little kids, you-know, they're maybe two, three years old, and they got a little box of Chiclets, little wee candies. And they're going around "Chiclet? Chiclet?" So you give them a penny, and you went to take a Chiclet, and they'd grab it back, "Oh no." They wanted the money but they didn't want to give you the Chiclet.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
She could with the stuff she went through. But jumping ahead just a little wee bit, we've lost the one native girl.
Small, little
He- he- he did that all through the year. There were two teachers like that, did that to me. And when I got to grade-eight, she was the best teacher I ever had. She little wee, short lady and ah she knew I was having problems so she s-- asked me to stay after school for two nights, two days.
Small, little
Well our bedpan, it wasn't one they put under the- it was- we had a little room ups-- in the- the house there, it had th-- one, two, three- three bedrooms upstairs I-guess and this little wee tiny room like a closest. We had a- like a little box thing with a pail on it with a lid on top like a toilet seat.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
And of course if we were busy doing something we didn't like it, we'd chase him and I re-- I recall one time, I chased him out in the horse part of the barn. He went up between the horses. Well I give the horse a wee jab with a fork and the horse would jump forward
Small, little
Where the quilt barn, well that was our farm. Well of course our house was just down a wee bit. Well we had to walk into town.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
And then there's this little- little-wee rock-cut before fairly large corner, and there's the old homestead, but you can hardly see it anymore and the new houses up on top
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: That must have been- Who was? Joan? Speaker: Yeah, she was Beaver-Leader. Interviewer: Beaver-Leader. Speaker: That's the little wee kids.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Yeah she um she um lived on Lakeshore property and ah I was on- lived on Main-Street then and we used to go to school together and she came up to here on me. You-know she was just a little wee thing and she um we were good friends- we're still friends. I don't- I- she hears from me at Christmas and I hear from Christmas sort-of-thing and I don't know.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: You-know scared the shit out of me- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: I was just a little wee kid.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
I was married at twenty-one. And I lived in this little wee wee house. And then I had my son and um I worked at Westing-House, which was in Swastika too.
Small, little
t w-- it- all in the thing. I married a school teacher and I lived in a little, wee house two doors down from that street and then we moved into Chaput-Hughes. You know where Chaput is?
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Does he speak Italian? Speaker: A little wee bit. Not um- mostly understanding than speaking.
Small, little