wee-wee
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of wee; onomatopoeic for the sound of urination.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]wee-wee (countable and uncountable, plural wee-wees)
- (UK, childish) Urine.
- (childish, slang, US) The penis.
- 1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 2, in Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, page 45:
- “I agree he’s gorgeous,” said his friend, “but someone told me he has the smallest wee-wee in New York.”
- (childish, slang, UK) The vulva or vagina.
- 1999, Lyn Gardner, “Don't mention the, er”, Guardian:
- But because little girls' genitals are tucked away, it's easy never to refer to them at all. They become the part with no name. Even up-front women are flummoxed. Vagina? Fanny? Front bottom? Twinkie? Privates? Didge? Down there? Flower? Wee-wee? Tuppence?
- 2016, Emily-Jane Clark, “14 weird and wonderful words parents use for vagina”, Metro:
- ‘Wee wee’ was the word my parent’s taught me to call my vagina.
- 1999, Lyn Gardner, “Don't mention the, er”, Guardian:
Synonyms
[edit]- (urine): wee, pee, pee-pee, tinkle, see also Thesaurus:urine
- (genitalia): pee-pee, see also Thesaurus:genitalia
- (male genitalia): willy, willie, weenie, wienie, wiener, winky, winkie
- (female genitalia): twinkle, nonny, nunny, nunnie, noonie, noo, noonoo, noo-noo, foo, foofoo, foo-foo, minnie, tuppence
Translations
[edit]urination (childish) — see also urination
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male or female genitalia (childish) — see also genitalia
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Verb
[edit]wee-wee (third-person singular simple present wee-wees, present participle wee-weeing, simple past and past participle wee-weed)
- (intransitive, informal, childish) to urinate
Synonyms
[edit]- wee, see also Thesaurus:urinate
Translations
[edit]to urinate — see also urinate
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