peewee

Meaning of peewee

noun
  1. any of a number of birds with a call that resembles the word ‘peewee’.
  2. a level of amateur sport, involving children aged eight or nine (in the US) or twelve or thirteen (in Canada).
    a peewee baseball team
  3. a small marble.

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

noun

a North American tyrant flycatcher with dark olive-grey plumage.

late 18th century: imitative.

Information about peewee

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of peewee is: peewees.
  • Languages ​​in which peewee is used:

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Hyphenation of peewee

pee-wee

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • peewee is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

peewee synonyms

Meaning runt:

runt, shrimp

Meaning pewee:

pewee, peewit, pewit

Words that rhyme with peewee

seewee, weewee, interviewee, pewee

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