What is this "wee" word i see everywhere

[meditereb]

What does it mean ? Why is used for everything ?

Is this one of those wee threads where the wee OP says something a wee bit stupid and then fucks off?

Why are posters so indignant over this question from the OP? It seemed like genuine curiosity

Aye, so it does. So "curious" was he/she they didn't even return to their thread.

Good to see that even in these trying times, goady wee fuckers are still doing their worst though.

why is it used for everything it's not! My Irish DH and his family say it for "small/little" - how on earth have you not heard it used before, or indeed, been able to work out what it means in context

It's a lovely wee word. A million times better than 'innit'.

I live on a bit hill and glen just doesn't sound right. A wee drink sounds better than just a drink. I don't think we can ban wee op.

Does anybody remember Hamish Macbeth and Wee Jock his faithful terrier?
I think Wee Jock died and we saw his ghost too. Hamish Macbeth was a wee bit spooky anyway. My DH is Scottish so it’s used a lot in this house.

Danny Boyle wrote Hamish Mcbeth wee bit of trivia for you

mrsjay Did not know that.

*I once had a non-Brit colleague express horror at 'ye cannae throw yer granny off the bus'. "How can you joke up this? It's so mean!"

I did point out that the song says that you can't...*

You clearly haven't heard the second verse...

Carol I was thinking the same thing!

Cos she’s your mammys mammy...

Don’t English people use “wee” for a streamy/urination?

Is a French sychophant a Oui-Man?

This thread brings up memories of that poster who thought Gingle Bells on a Christmas jumper was a typo and who was cringing for the sales assistant wearing the jumper.

And then there’s this. The arrogance of using a chat forum as your personal Google forum is astounding.

I’m not Scottish, and didn’t in fact grow up in the British Isles, but I use this a lot. Particularly useful when cooing over babies and cats...

Being from N Ireland, the word wee is inextricably linked to many things. For example, i can't imagine anyone here saying anything other than 'she had a wee girl/she had a wee boy' when updating on baby news. Always wee, never little.

My health visitor always referred to my daughter as 'the wee woman' and my son as 'the wee man' when they were only a matter of weeks old.

I’m Northern Irish and this thread has just reminded me, I need a wee cup of tea!

Here, everything has ‘wee’ infront of it.

Google is your friend!

When I was wee, we used it in NE England
but I don't know if that was just our family

and when I was wee, that was 1950s, 1960s
< winds up dinosaur >

I was a wee girl in the sixties, back when big Aggie was a wee girl.
When ds was born, having to get married as a concept had vanished. The mammies on the ward who had boys discussed my boy and my wee boy. The mammies of girls crooner aw wee woman.
My next baby was a wee domino delivery!

Im irish and we use it ALOT usually means small

‘A wee rain ate’!

Is that the plastic pleated rain hood that folded up into a wee packet, to go in your handbag, @NellVarnish? I’d completely forgotten about them - and how satisfying it was to get them folded up properly (or maybe I just had a very sad, tedious childhood).

Fucking autocarrot.

A wee rainmate not a wee rain ate.