▪ I. wee-wee
var. wi-wi2.
▪ II. wee-wee, v. colloq.
(ˈwiːwiː)
[Echoic: freq. as a child's word.]
intr. To urinate.
| 1930 C. Beaton Diary Dec. in Wandering Years (1961) ix. 192 Young men..hurried into the garden to wee-wee. 1944 D. Welch In Youth is Pleasure vi. 113 Orvil hated Guy... He was glad that the dog had wee-wee'd on Guy's expensive jacket. 1954 D. Abse Ash on Young Man's Sleeve 167, I suddenly rushed into the sea..and wee-weed in the water for a joke. 1960 L. Pincus Marriage ii. 110 Mrs. Robinson felt disgusted at the thought of ‘the tail’ touching her, ‘because it wee-wee'd’. 1975 ‘J. Lymington’ Spider in Bath ii. 40 Show us the way to the bar and the lady would probably like to wee-wee. |
▪ III. wee-wee, n. colloq.
(ˈwiːwiː)
[f. as prec.: cf. pee-pee2.]
1. Urine; an act of urination; to do (have, etc.) a wee-wee, to go (make) wee-wee, to urinate. Cf. water n. 18 a.
| 1937 Partridge Dict. Slang 943/1 Wee-wee, a urination; esp. do a wee-wee..late C. 19–20. 1938 Life & Health Sept. 19/2 If he wants to urinate, it's, ‘Mommie, wee, wee, duty.’ 1948 A. N. Keith Three came Home x. 184 Our barrack..smelled of kids, pots, and wee-wee. 1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xvi. 175 If you'll excuse me a moment, I must make wee wee. 1961 J. Stroud Touch & Go xiii. 138 He made his voice deliberately offensive: ‘He's gone to do a wee-wee.’ 1969 M. Braithwaite Never sleep Three in Bed xvii. 76 Hub and I had to go wee wee, and when advised by Mother that we were to go upstairs instead of in the back yard we took the stairs two at a time to see if such a thing could be true. 1982 J. Scott Uprush of Mayhem vi. 67 When he needed a wee-wee he did it in a corner of the hut. |
2. A penis.
| 1964 W. & J. Breedlove Swap Clubs xv. 233 Our grandmothers, wielding butcher knives, threatened to cut off our fathers' wee-wees if they didn't stop playing with them. 1972 Screw 12 June 16/3 [The] self-righteous defender of what he thought to be his threatened wee wee, could not contain his machismo. |