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[wee] / wi /


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"My wee dog's at the heliport when I arrive," he said, "I do miss her."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

To let you in on a wee secret, a defense and discipline-oriented culture goes a long way to being competitive at the level Trojan fans expect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The suspects were stopped by police as they headed in three vehicles in the wee hours of Sunday to the U.K’s Royal Air Force Fairford base in Gloucestershire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Enforcement was lackluster, however, and legislative compromise killed a promising assessment to determine whether local Head Start programs were producing learning gains among their wee charges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Used to climb this very tree, y'know, when Nick was a wee nipper. One summer, we built a tree house. Wonder if it's still up there..."

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

“Bostrop Dancing weer day afore yesterday,” said the keeper, grinning as he made this retort about the village feast.

From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

Zij staken dus weer in zee en besloten eerst het advies van Specx, vertegenwoordiger van de O.-I.

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“What weer it about t’owd one?” said another.

From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

“What time weer it to be, lad?” whispered Harry.

From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

“If I weer much along o’ that Rasp, it would soon come to a row.”

From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn

To-day is Quentin's birthday and he loved his gifts, perhaps most of all the weest, cunningest live pig you ever saw, presented him by Straus.

From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

“She had the weest, teentiest toes, And the leastest speck of a blackish nose, With great, great eyes”—“Coo, coo! coo, coo!”

From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale

He, the "old bird," the cool hand, the sharp one of Ours, to have been done brown, to be the joke of the mess, the laugh of all the men, down to the weest drummer-boy!

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

D'ye mind the wee lassie that was sae still till she began to know ye—the weest one of them a'?

From Between You and Me by Sir Harry Lauder

They wente up to the Saylis, These yemen all three; They loked est, they loked weest, They myght no man see.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick


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