wee
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6.8
- adjective
- /wi/
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- Sometimes I am up till the wee hours of the morning playing this game.
- the wee hours
- dance into the wee hours
- in the wee hours
And yeah, you're part of the reason I'm so tired, because you were meowing from early wee hours of the morning.
- And yeah, you're part of the reason I'm so tired, because you were meowing from early wee hours of the morning.
- It's to be in somebody's bed that I have no intent on having sex with during the wee hours of the night.
- Learn, train, record, write part of my book, start a side hustle, what have you and work until the wee hours in the morning.
- I have no idea other than it's like early wee, early morning hours on some day of the week just passed.
- And I realised in the wee hours of this morning, much to Tanya's like, when am I going to get the slides?
Examples
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Learn, train, record, write part of my book, start a side hustle, what have you and work until the wee hours in the morning.
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Northern observers will have to wait until the wee hours to spot the final bright planet, Mars.
Academic text (2007) -
And by this time, it was wee hours of the morning and I was done.
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Since we're in the wee small hours of the morning?
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In these wee hours of the creative journey, cracks begin to show in the dream.
Blog text (5) -
I look forward to sitting at this very table tossing ideas around until what I fear will be the wee hours of the morning.
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He worked till the wee hours every night.
Fiction book (2002) -
KILI: They strike in the wee small hours... when everyone's asleep.
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My daughter drives all kinds of trucks and will occasionally call us up in the wee hours, knowing we'll be just about up and getting coffee anyway, just to talk to someone to wake herself up on the road at that time.
Blog text (11) -
I found myself awake at the wee hours of the morning, staring at the ceiling.
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Etymology
Wee as in the wee hours uses the Scottish meaning 'small' to name the tiny early part of the day just after midnight, so the wee hours are the very early morning.