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Wee

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

A little or young thing

ExampleMeaning
Yeah he was ah- he was good. We had a good dad. He loved little wee children. As we got bigger, why, he got a little impatient with us (laughs) but who wouldn't? But little kids- now when I think back, he had all the patience could be.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
And he helped build the (inc) of this bridge over here. Ah, the little wee deep going to Southern-New-Liskeard here?
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Eh, ah no, but the first time, I tried it, there was just like a little wee hill and I was nervous of that, and the first time I went down, yeah, I fell (laughs). But ah, no, it was really- now I'm a lot better (laughs).
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
ery close to it. Ah virgin pine is- is- they're- they're just- they're straight up and they're only wee few limbs atop. You can drop it down and you got a log right like that and um I always look for tho
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Anyway, the coyotes come in the area. Then they were so scared the coyotes would get their dogs- they'd some wee pets. So they got their hired man, see if he could get permission to go and hunt where the coyotes were.
Small, little
It's just ah s-- small heaps of hay and then you'd move ahead and make another coil. And then when it dried a wee bit, you'd throw it on to the wagon and bring it to the barn (laughs). But she even done that. Some, not very much for she'd five kids to look after.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What kind of berries did you get down there? Speaker 1: Strawberries. Speaker 2: Them little wee things.
Small, little
We had everything. Chicken. Anything your wee heart desired was there.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
He said, "No you need the- you need the practice," he said, "You need to practice because I- I don't intend to raise pigs." So, okay so I- I done the operating and ah- I done operating on wee pigs, lots of people.
Small, little
My mother raised- she raised three pigs up at the farm before she left the farm. She had- she had three wee pigs, she called them Faith, Hope and Charity.
Small, little
Oh yes. Anything I know about fixing anything or like y-- (inc) animals, shouldn't be telling you this but to castrate a wee pig, I got that from my dad.
Small, little
There's something about raising a wee chicken that I just love to listen to them peep, and peep, and peep.
Small, little
She was oldest. She was a great girl. She still is. She's only a wee short thing but she's...
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
So this chap in and he said, "Lady," he said, "You're not standing up," Well I said, "I'm only- I'd-" little wee glass of this- looked like eggnog but it was brown. So I- I had that and I said I'm going down to the shores to wait. So I thought will they come before the scow comes in?
Small, little
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Lawrence and- and ah, him come- down into the bush there and met a wee black dog here and he went down into this groundhog's hole. (inc) this is where the- the old lady had her cubs down in there.
Small, little
Oh dear. Up in the wee loft f-- try-- trying to fill it with hay, you-know. The- you're far- d-- a hand up into the m-- into the- a hole up- in the loft and they had the (inc) and back a little piece to fill up the end, the back end.
Small, little
Otherwise, you know if they were wet and sweating and you feel sorry for them and- and you'd maybe wash their shoulders down. Some of them would be starting to scald a wee bit where the shoulder on the r-- collar- maybe was them down a bit. With a tractor, well I- I enjoyed it.
Small, little
So our other son, he was gone him around in a wee wagon. And when he seen them coming over just galloping their best. They were heading for the barn.
Small, little
Yeah there were- the team that I had, the- there was ah- I was cutting hay and ah, wh-- the- the- the wee little mare, she w-- she was- she wasn't the- she was a little j-- jittery
Small, little
Yeah, more than once, yeah. Wee foal ah kicked me. The mark of each hoof was right on my legs there.
Small, little