peewee
peewee Lexical Profile
peewee Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
North American Designating or relating to a sports league or division for very young children.
"He spent his Saturday mornings coaching a peewee ice hockey team at the local rink."
North American Very small or diminutive in size.
"The bakery sold a special batch of peewee cupcakes for the children's party."
• noun
North American A person or thing that is unusually small, or a young child participating in a junior sports division.
"The rink was crowded with enthusiastic peewees practicing their skating drills."
Australian The magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), a common black-and-white Australian passerine bird belonging to the monarch flycatcher family.
"A pair of peewees built a sturdy mud nest on a horizontal branch in the eucalyptus tree."
North American Any of several small New World flycatchers of the genus Contopus, more commonly spelled pewee, noted for their plaintive whistling calls.
"We heard the distinct, whistling call of a peewee echoing from the woodland canopy."
North American A very small playing marble, typically measuring about half an inch in diameter.
"He traded two regular glass marbles for a rare blue peewee."
• Rhymes for peewee
Word Origin & Etymology
In the sense of something diminutive, it is an 18th-century alteration of 'peewit' or a reduplication of 'wee' (meaning small). The bird senses are independently echoic, imitating the high-pitched calls of the respective species.
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