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Definition of Peewee
1. Noun. Disparaging terms for small people.
Generic synonyms: Small Person
Derivative terms: Runty, Runty, Shrimpy
2. Noun. Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Flycatcher, New World Flycatcher, Tyrant Bird, Tyrant Flycatcher
Group relationships: Contopus, Genus Contopus
Specialized synonyms: Contopus Sordidulus, Western Wood Pewee
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
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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