peewee
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiːwiː/
Audio (AU) (file)
Etymology 1
Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).
Noun
peewee (plural peewees)
- (informal) A short or small person; a small object.
- A kind of small marble in children's games.
- 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.
- 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- (US, sports) A player in a sports league for very young children.
- Is five too young for peewee football?
- 1971 November, Pat Strange, Mini Judoka in Aussie Ladies Tourney, Black Belt, page 61,
- Each year, younger and younger girls line up for competition on the mats, and at this year′s Western Australia Women′s Judo Tournament extra peewee divisions were added to accomodate[sic] the young ladies.
Etymology 2
Probably from onomatopoeia of the birds' songs.
Noun
peewee (plural peewees)
- (Australia, New South Wales and Queensland) A magpie-lark or mudlark, Grallina cyanoleuca.
- 1939, Francis Ratcliffe, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia, page 43,
- A large flock of black and white peewees—magpie larks—passed over our heads from a patch of mangrove […] .
- 1964, Carl Weismann, Australian Bird Songs, page 15,
- The studies of A. H. Robinson in Western Australia indicate that Peewees tend to pair for life, and hold the same territory on successive seasons.
- 2004, William McGregor, The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia, page 2,
- Many Kimberley languages call the peewee or mudlark diyadiya (pronounced like ‘dear-dear’) after one of its calls; […] .
- 1939, Francis Ratcliffe, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia, page 43,
- A pewee.
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