different between dogs vs wee

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA^(key): /d??z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??z/
• (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d??z/

Noun

dogs

1. plural of dog

Noun

dogs pl (plural only)

1. (slang, US) Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat. [from early 20th c.]

   My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.

2. (usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.

   I lost money at the dogs last night.

3. (nautical) Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.

Derived terms

• dogs bark
• gone to the dogs

Verb

dogs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dog

Anagrams

• Gods, gods

Volapük

Noun

dogs

1. nominative plural of dog

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?, IPA^(key): /wi?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: oui, we, whee (in accents with the wine-whine merger), Wii

Etymology 1

From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, we?e, wæ?e (“little bit”), from Old English w??, w??e (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *w?g? (“scales, weight”) and *w?g? (“weight”), related to Middle English we?an (“to move, weigh”) (15c).

Adjective

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 73:

     I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.

   You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.

Translations

Noun

wee

1. A short time or short distance.

References

• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.

Noun

wee (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
2. (colloquial) An act of urination.

   I need to have a wee

Synonyms

• (all senses): wee-wee
• (urine): See Thesaurus:urine
• (urination): See Thesaurus:urination

Translations

Verb

wee (third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed)

1. (colloquial) To urinate.

Synonyms

• wee-wee, see also Thesaurus:urinate

Derived terms

• wee-wee

Translations

Etymology 3

• see we

Pronoun

wee (personal pronoun)

1. obsolete emphatic of we
   • 1645 Marhc, John Milton, Tetrachordon.

Anagrams

• Ewe, eew, ewe

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /we?/

Verb

wee

1. (transitive) to lack

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wai. Compare Old English w? (English woe), Old High German w? (German weh), Old Norse vei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Adjective

wee (not comparable)

1. nauseating

Inflection

Noun

wee f (plural weeën, diminutive weetje n)

1. contraction during labour or childbirth

2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness, pain, woe (used in interjections of despair or annoyance)

Derived terms

• (sorrow): o wee, ach en wee, heimwee

Anagrams

• Ewe

Kikuyu

Pronoun

wee (second person singular)

1. Alternative spelling of we (“you, thou”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *w?, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /we?/

Interjection

wêe

1. woe!

Descendants

• Dutch: wee

Adjective

wêe

1. unpleasant, painful

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: wee

Noun

wêe f

1. pain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: wee
• Limburgish: wieë

Further reading

• “wee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wee (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

wee

1. Alternative form of we (“woe”)

Scots

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?, IPA^(key): /wi?/

Adjective

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. (standard, Ulster) small, little, tiny

Yola

Pronoun

wee

1. we

Preposition

wee

1. with

References

Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN