peewee

Noun

Meaning

small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

disparaging terms for small people

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

runt small little shrimp midget tiny dwarf pewee microscopic mini pewit peewit half-pint Contopus virens wood pewee
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Antonyms

grand colossus titanic elephantine large great
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Hypernyms

flycatcher New World flycatcher small person tyrant flycatcher tyrant bird

Hyponyms

Contopus sordidulus western wood pewee

Examples

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? George Saunders

You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve. Bobby Orr

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow. Miranda Kerr

As he idly broadcasts on his shortwave radio, someone identifying herself as "Peewee" answers and requests a homing signal. Source: Internet

Front cover of the 1981 Del Rey edition Kip and Peewee are transported to Vega 5, the Mother Thing's home planet. Source: Internet

Kip and Peewee are returned to Earth with devices and equations provided by the Vegans. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

peevy peewa peewah peewee golf peewit peeyew