Wee hours mean the early hours of a day, or the period immediately after midnight. They are called so because the word 'wee' in present-day English means 'very small or tiny'. As these hours are the beginning of the new day they came to be referred to as the wee hours.
Meaning of small hours in English
the early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises: She was up until the small hours of the morning trying to finish her essay.
Synonyms of wee hours (noun beginning of day)
dawning. daybreak. daylight. morning. aurora.
(mass noun) The time of the day when the sun has set and it is dark. dark. night. night-time. darkness.
When we use the phrase "a few hours" we mean something is going to happen within three or more hours or after three or more hours.
synonyms for a few times
On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to a few times, such as: hardly, occasionally, rarely, scarcely, sometimes, and sporadically.
A few is generally considered to mean between two and several. Some people use a few to mean around three, but this is not a universal interpretation. Its meaning is highly relative to the context—it often depends on what's being discussed, especially the scale and expectations.
They are called so because the word 'wee' in present-day English means 'very small or tiny'. As these hours are the beginning of the new day they came to be referred to as the wee hours.
Meaning of wee small hours in English
the early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises: There's nothing worse than being wide awake in the wee small hours.
See definition of midnight on Dictionary.com. noun middle of the night.
On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to urinate, such as: pee, micturate, tinkle, have to go, peepee, and take a leak.
Emptying the bladder is called urination. The terms feces or excrement refer to the waste that comes out of the intestinal tract through the rectum. It is what is left over after your body extracts what it needs from food. The act of emptying the bowels is known as defecation.
Urinary incontinence (enuresis) is the medical term for bedwetting. Incontinence is accidental or intentional urination in children who are at an age where they should be able to have control of their bladders. Girls usually obtain bladder control before boys do.
/ˌʃɔːt ˈtaɪm/ us. /ˌʃɔːrt ˈtaɪm/ (also reduced time) a situation in which the people who work at a factory or in an office work fewer days or hours than usual for less money because there is not much work to do: He's been put on short time because business is so quiet.
Morning is the period from sunrise to noon. It is preceded by the twilight period of dawn. There are no exact times for when morning begins (also true of evening and night) because it can vary according to one's lifestyle and the hours of daylight at each time of year.
Eric Partridge records this in his A Dictionary of Slang, 1937, as "Wee-wee, a urination; esp. do a wee-wee" and considers it to be late 19th century. The meaning of WEE-WEE is to pass urine from the body : to urinate —used especially by children or when talking to children.
Noun. (informal) The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep.
For me, pee is used as a verb ('she needed to pee'), while wee works much better as a noun ('she needed a wee'), but can also work as a verb ('she needed to wee').
"Pee" is childish, "tinkle" or "wee" even more so. "Piss" and "slash" can be rudely vulgar or amusingly friendly depending on your company. If you need to explain yourself, you can say where you're going instead of what you're doing.
Some insisted “a few” meant three and only three. Some said it meant three or four. Or maybe more. The answer is that there is no hard-and-fast answer.
While many would agree that few means three or more, the dictionary definition is, “not many but more than one.” So, a few cannot be one, but it can be as low as two.
Few is generally 2 to 4 hours. We also say a couple of hours and couple usually means 2 but in this case it could be 3 or 4 hours.
every now and then. every once in a while. infrequently. now and again. occasionally.
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