What is this "wee" word i see everywhere

[meditereb]

What does it mean ? Why is used for everything ?

@Jeeperscreepers69 👌

Unless you mean when it's used for "having a wee" as in urinating??

I'm nae Scottish and use it all the time for my wee bairns! (It sounds nice! lol) x

I have to say OP I think you've had a hard time on here. I'd never heard the term 'boak' before joining MN. I saw one thread where someone was torn apart for not knowing what it meant. I had no idea either. People seem to think you have to know every bloomin' phrase.

@whostoletheeyeoutyourteddybear I read that just as you’ve written it in my head and suddenly miss being in Scotland.

I’m from Portsmouth and use wee to express my surprise, shock or excitement at something. ‘Wee, did you hear about x’ or I’m told something shocking and would respond with ‘Weeeee!’
I understand it in the Scottish/Irish context too but don’t hear it used like that round here often.
Both versions in the urban dictionary.
It’s a great word. Weeeeeeeee!

Let me Google that for you...

Reminds me of the wonderful Big Yin himself.

" Mind an no talk that wee wa' awa wi ye"

Makes perfect sense to us Scots.

Although I'm Aberdonian not Glaswegian

You OK, Hun?

I saw an English interviewer years ago asking Billy Connolly 'What exactly is a yin'.

@Katherine I dont know ehat boak means either but i am not asking ;)

@whostoletheeyeoutyourteddybear
Would love to go back dh is not having it

Boak means to vomit, there is also “dry boak” which is heaves. A friend of mine describes anyone she finds distasteful as “he gives me the dry boak”.

@whostoletheeyeoutyourteddybear

Totally agree

When people are scared, they become more extreme in their views. Like telling foreigners to go back where they came from. This thread is getting pretty nasty.

Surprised you've never heard of it before op! You must have lived a pretty sheltered life I think!

On the subject of weans:
When a Kirkby lad, Alan Stubbs moved up to Glasgow to play for Celtic FC, he reported back to fellow Scousers that it was strange that everyone called their kids "Wayne".

....And when Ronnie Rosenthal signed for Liverpool, manager Kenny Dalglish asked if he would be taking English lessons.

"Yes," he said. "You too?"

(And that's not the best Ronnie Rosenthal joke. That's the one about when the Gulf War was raging and the Scuds were falling on Israel. A journo asked if Ronnie would be returning home. "Only if they bomb my village," he said. Jouro asks the name of Ronnie's village. "Birkdale," he says.)

Actually now that i think about it i got British citizenship last year and i havent renew my other passport so my birth country wont accept me back now damn you virus ...

Dialects and the word wee were not part of "life in the UK" test though ...

@ginghamstarfish i lived a sheltered life because i havent heard the word wee before ?? This is getting too ridiculous

I'm amazed you didn't know what it meant!

I wondered how long the fuck off back where you came from posts would take.

@meditereb an even more confusing one is when a Scottish person Ken’s something. Not referring to a pers called ken... used as...

I ken there’s something going on. Or worse, I ken it.

I honestly took weeks to work out ken = think or know when I worked with a Scottish group of finance advisers years ago, much to their amusement! Mind you the accents are gorgeous (Scots and Irish).

I use it entirely too much. From NZ. I think it's been inherited from the Scots contingent that colonised. I think the closer you get to Dunedin in NZ, the more you are likely to use 'wee'. . .

Weirdest one I had was being asked ‘when Did you have your wee c-section?’ 😄🤣 there was nothing wee about it!