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- [pee-wee]
- /ˈpiˌwi/
- /ˈpiː.ˌwi/
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- [pee-wee]
- /ˈpiˌwi/
Definitions of peewee word
- adjective peewee very small; tiny. 1
- adjective peewee insignificant or inconsequential: a player sent to the peewee leagues. 1
- noun peewee a person or thing that is unusually small. 1
- noun peewee an animal that is small for its kind; runt. 1
- noun peewee Marbles. a small playing marble, often one made of clay rather than glass. 1
- noun peewee very short person 1
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Origin of peewee
First appearance:
before 1885 One of the 21% newest English words
First recorded in 1885-90; rhyming compound based on wee
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Parts of speech for Peewee
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
peewee popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
peewee usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for peewee
adj peewee
- bitsy — very small
- bitty — If you say that something is bitty, you mean that it seems to be formed from a lot of different parts which you think do not fit together or go together well.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- half pint — half of a pint, equal to 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) or 16 tablespoons (0.2 liter).
noun peewee
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- homunculus — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
adjective peewee
- dwarfed — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- epitomised — Simple past tense and past participle of epitomise.
- epitomized — Simple past tense and past participle of epitomize.
- minim — the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. Symbol: ♍, ♏. Abbreviation: min, min.;
- mite — a contribution that is small but is all that a person can afford.
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