Definition of Peewee

1. Noun. Disparaging terms for small people.

Exact synonyms: Half-pint, Runt, Shrimp
Generic synonyms: Small Person
Derivative terms: Runty, Runty, Shrimpy

2. Noun. Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.

Definition of Peewee

1. Noun. (informal) A short or small person; a small object. ¹

2. Noun. (US sports) A player in a sports league for very young children. ¹

3. Noun. (context: Australia New South Wales and Queensland) A magpie-lark or mudlark, ''Grallina cyanoleuca''. ¹

4. Noun. A Pewee. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Peewee

1. an unusually small person or thing [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peewee

peesweeps
peetweet
peetweets
peeve
peeved
peever
peevers
peeves
peeving
peevish
peevishly
peevishlyer
peevishlyest
peevishness
peevishnesses
peewee (current term)
peewee golf
peewees
peewit
peewits
pefloxacin
peg-and-socket articulation
peg-and-socket joint
peg-leg
peg-legging
peg away
peg back
peg down
peg it

Literary usage of Peewee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trumps: A Novel by George William Curtis (1861)
"Amos peewee, DD, made a suitable improvement of the melancholy event of the week. ... It leaked out the next day at Mr. Gray's that Dr. peewee was ..."

2. Second Thief, Best Thief: The Tunnel Bar by Anthony Olszewski (2006)
"PeeWee Shops for a Car There it was. The object of desire. ... "What's the matter, PeeWee? You go to a funeral or something on the way up the block? ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"Two We Think Well of peewee By William MacHarg A Story of a Lost Identity Ч The setting: Chicago's "Gold Coast " and its slums. q peewee didn't want to ..."

4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"Here they lived among his distinguished connections until 1857, when a change in their circumstances induced them to move to a farm in peewee Valley, ..."

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