noun
Meaning 1
A short or small person; a small object.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
peewee
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpiːwiː/
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rhymes with -iːwi
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CMU ARPABET: P IY1 W IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A kind of small marble in children's games.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A player in a sports league for very young children.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- 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 the young ladies.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A magpie-lark or mudlark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
Qualifier: New South Wales and Queensland
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noun
Meaning 5
A pewee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 6
small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird
Narrower terms: western wood pewee, Contopus sordidulus
noun
Meaning 7
disparaging terms for small people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: runt, shrimp, half-pint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: small person
History
Etymology
Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).
Imitative of the vocalisation of the birds.