What is this "wee" word i see everywhere

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What does it mean ? Why is used for everything ?

Wee is used in Northern Ireland for small but not used in the Republic of Ireland much for small.

Isn't it chappie not Chabbie?

How on earth can you not know what wee means, do you live under as stone

It's used in northern parts of the republic...

@Lincolnfield I live in South Yorkshire - was a student at Sheffield uni...

Visit Sheffield often, have a fair few friends who live there...

Have asked DH & several friends.

No-one has a clue what chabbie even means let alone uses it.

I think it's perfectly reasonable for the OP to live in the UK & not have heard the word used.

Perhaps, but I know that people in Bavaria use different words to people in Hamburg, although I am not German. I know people in Liverpool use different words to people in Norwich although I am not English.

Wow

@User3billion. Crikey! Native Sheffielders, particularly those who grew up in the East End, Attercliffe, Tinsley, Firvale, those areas, have a language of their own. No disrespect but I doubt people who went to Sheffield Uni. ever really mixed with the steelworkers on the ‘dark side’ of the city.

I nursed at Northern General Hospital for thirty five years and we heard chabbie frequently. We were asked ‘are tha arwrate?’ We were told ‘I’ve gorra jippy belly’ or ‘I’ve got t’jips’. ‘Bag o mashins’ means everything.

Old ladies would say, ‘There’s summat up wi’ me tuppence.’ I’ll leave that one to your imagination! 😂😂

We have a very narrow passage at the side of our house, but we never knew exactly what to call it. Until our mancunian builder called it the ginnel. Very handy!

Let's not forget it also means pee. A small pee is a wee wee, and was a common expression when I was a child

Isn't that a wee wee-wee?

Yes i am greek i have honestly didnt hear it before only when used for the toilet i dont know why people are finding that hard to believe and no i am bot living under a stone
I did not know its a dialect i thought is a new slang word that i didnt cought up with ....

There are words that vary regionally. The classic example is the small area of trees, is it a wood, copse or spinney?

Here in Dorset we have the heath, what northerners would call a moor.

You probably have heard it but it's maybe not really registered until you saw it written down? You do hear it on tv and in films (Hollywood think that every single Scottish person says it all the time). I'm sure he says it in Succession...

As you are Greek - can I just ask - I had a (Greek) colleague who used to use a word that was slang for 'macho man' - something to do with sleeves? Manga, mangas?

It's exactly that :)

Crikey! Native Sheffielders, particularly those who grew up in the East End, Attercliffe, Tinsley, Firvale, those areas, have a language of their own DH was born in Attercliffe. We've been married for 13 years and, although he is a university educated professional and I'm sure he spoke the Queen's English when we met, I sometimes need a translator.

@CaptainMyCaptain. 😂😂 one of our Operating Department Assistants was a Tinsley lad and, even though I’ve lived in Sheffield since I was fourteen years old (I was born in beautiful County Galway) I was always having to ask other people what he was saying. It really is a language of its own.

I had the honour and privilege of nursing the author Barry Hines (Kestrel for a Knave and the film Kes) before he lost his battle with advanced dementia. He was a true gentleman and despite having lived in London for many years, he came back ‘op Norf’ as he became more poorly. Shortly before he lost all verbal communication, he reverted back to his native Barnsley language. His wife, also Irish like me, could not understand anything he was saying.

Magkas means “tough guy”. Its Usually used for a guy from the working class/lower class, with special appearance, speech and behavior.
Depending on the context it may also mean successful or very competent
I dont think it has anything to do with sleeves

Maybe it sounds a little like ‘mangas’ (Spanish for sleeves). I remember it came up because a tailor opened up near the office making office shirts and it was called Mangas and she said ‘oh, like macho man’.

Magkas means “tough guy”

Not to be confused with malakas

To be devastatingly honest, I think it's the posters who can't believe that someone doesn't know a word they know perfectly well who live under a stone. It's a big world out there!

Not to be confused with malakas dare I ask?

"To be devastatingly honest,"

Don't worry, literally no one is "devastated".

Malaka is one of my favourite words (lived in Cyprus for years).