wee
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
感叹词 intj.
代词 pron.
发音 wē
英文释义
名词 n.
- A short time or short distance.
- Urine.
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An act of urination.
— I need to have a wee.
动词 v.
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To urinate.
— I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!
形容词 adj.
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Small, little.
— You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.
感叹词 intj.
- Alternative form of whee.
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The squeal of a pig.
— 1913, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Pigling Bland Pigling Bland became frightened and cried "Wee, wee, wee! I can't find my way home!"
代词 pron.
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obsolete emphatic of we
— Yet lest wee should be Capernaitans, as wee are told there that the flesh profiteth nothing, so wee are told heer, if we be not as deaf as adders, that this union of the flesh proceeds from the union of a fit help and solace.
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近义词
词源
词源 1
From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).
词源 2
Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.
词源 3
See we.
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