peewee

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short or small person; a small object. informal
  2. A magpie-lark or mudlark (Grallina cyanoleuca). Australia
    — A large flock of black and white peewees—magpie larks—passed over our heads from a patch of mangrove[…].
  3. A kind of small marble in children's games.
    — 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.
  4. A pewee. US
  5. A player in a sports league for very young children. US
    — Is five too young for peewee football?

词形变化

peewees plural peewees plural

词汇关系

衍生词
peewee golf

词源

词源 1
Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).
词源 2
Imitative of the vocalisation of the birds.
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