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peewee

Pronunciation: /ˈpiːwiː/

Definition of peewee

noun

  • 1any of a number of birds with a call that resembles the word ‘peewee’:
  • Australiananother term for magpie lark.
  • Scottish the northern lapwing.
  • North Americanvariant of pewee.
  • 2 [usually as modifier] North American a level of amateur sport, involving children aged eight or nine (in the US) or twelve or thirteen (in Canada):a peewee baseball team
  • a player at a peewee level of sport.
  • 3a small marble.

Origin:

mid 19th century (in peewee (sense 3)); peewee (sense 1) is imitative; peewee (sense 2), peewee (sense 3) are from wee1, by reduplication

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