What is this "wee" word i see everywhere

[meditereb]

What does it mean ? Why is used for everything ?

I'm Aussie and I use wee all the time. Both in the context of small and in the context of using the toilet!

ye wee bawbag! Ye ken whit we're oan aboot!

It's not just for small/little, there are multiple variations, depending on the sentence it's used in. It's never 'overused'. We love it so much, we even double it up when we go to the toilet, it's a wee wee 😊

Awk bless your wee heart

And maybe some of you don't know that the Scots dialect is a recognized language with a dictionary of it's own. As has Ulster Scots. Both use many of the words Chaucer knew. Received English really developed ou The t of the English used in the Oxford region, or so I am told. The North is another place on both sides of the present border.

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

Good idea

What’s ur wee name and ur wee number?

Boak - vomit
Dry boak - dry heaving

This alsway,puts a smile ⎌on my face

I should have said always puts a wee smile on my face!!

Wee glass of wine?!!

@meditereb Are you Greek?

Of course you can have a wee wean(correct spelling)

Havent read the whole thread but sincerely hope the OP isn't from the UK and can be given the benefit of the doubt.

oh wee lassie we are needing a wee word in your wee ear

Used a lot here where I live (and so I have picked it up) in New Zealand as lots of settlers here from Scotland......

Would you ever take a wee look at yerself OP.

Nice bait ya wee troll...

Bairn is East Coast. Central Belt and West are weans. I’m not getting the weans/wains thing is it not just that it’s spelled weans and pronounced wains?

It's what I'm thinking as well. I'm not British the only meaning of wee I knew was the need to urinate. But I discovered a new thing 😁

Also a kiwi use it as both Wee as in small and wee as in going for a Pee.

@Lincolnfield I was born & raised in Yorkshire - rarely hear the use of the word "wee" other than needing to visit the loo & I've never in my life heard the word "chabbie" referring to a baby or otherwise.

@User3billion you should come to Sheffield then! You’d hear it everywhere. 😁