What is this "wee" word i see everywhere

[meditereb]

What does it mean ? Why is used for everything ?

This thread has made me think of the Nac Mac Feegles (also known as the Wee Free Men, about 6” tall, tattooed blue, red haired, capable of carrying a cow, one under each hoof) - invented by Terry Pratchett - and how they were named.

” Feegle tend to have human names, usually abbreviated and with some sort of modifier (Rob Anybody, Daft Wullie, Big Aggie, No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock).”

Not to mention, Wee Mad Arthur, a feegle who works in Ankh Morpork where, amongst other things, he exterminates wasps, by going into the mpcentre of their nests, setting charges as he goes, then fights his way out before they go off.

Autocarrot 😂😂😂

How come Irish people get to use 'wee'? Does that mean all non-Scots can?

How come Irish people get to use 'wee'?

Most Northern Irish are aka Scotch-Irish, descended from migrants from Scotland.

See also:

Two ducks flying over Belfast.
One says, Quack!
The other says, Ahm goin as quack as I can!

I say this to my daughter ‘do you want a wee cup of tea hen”.

Also: I went into the bakers and said ‘that cake in the window - is it a donut or a meringue?’ 😂🤣🤣🤣

In Portsmouth where I’m from it’s a way of conveying surprise at something
As in “Wee he didn’t do that did he”?

Sorry if offended anyone ! I am an exoat here didnt know it was scottish !! Just saw alot of instagramers using it and i was honestly wondering what it is !! It seemed abit annoying

I live here for 7 years never came across it before !! So sorry if it was offensive !

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius
My wee gran called them rainy bunnets

Just to clarify i got that it meant "small" but not why is used for everything "i took this wee man for a wee walk around the wee park "
Is it suppose to be cute ? I just find it annoying sorry if thats offensive

It’s just a word. Like when Prince Charles says ummmm and uhrrrrrrr, or teenagers say ‘like’ and ‘and I went...’.

You've been here 7 years and never came across the use of wee in a sentence?

Aye right

People are on mumsnet are quite anti foreigner OP just ignore them. I’ve lived here fore 15 years and have not heard it.

"i took this wee man for a wee walk around the wee park "

Firstly "this wee man" that could be any male, most likely to mean an unknown elderly gentleman.
Where as "the wee man" would be your own smallest son or grandson or nephew.

"Wee walk" = short walk.

"Wee park" = small park, nearby as opposed to the big park a 15min walk away.

Have you came across the word boak on here?

As for being anti- foreign the OP finds a foreign word to her annoying when it's a perfectly good Scottish/Irish word. So if anyone is anti foreign then it's the op no?

@StoorieHoose no i really havent i came across it on instGram lately by many "influensers" and i thought it was a new "slang" or something !

I e come across that work on here, but again not in real life. I think the south has less colloquial(?) words then the north? I’ve never lived in the north as I can’t seem to process the accents.

We normally go to Ulster for the two weeks before Easter but obviously that isn’t happening this year. This thread triggered a such craving to hear the word wee used freely and indiscriminately that I’ve just binge watched the whole of London Irish.

I would step away from Instagram influencers then Op and learn how to use Google instead of asking on a Mumsnet thread

Bloody Northerners speaking in a dialect people can't understand

Are you always this sensitive? Seems really exhausting.
I didn’t ask to be born where I was and I didn’t ask to be brought to this country.

@StoorieHoose you are one of those people that are easily offended aren't you ?

How is it even possible to be annoyed by people using their native dialect?

Thats like going to another country and being pissed off by people speaking their own language