Large bearded woodsman with axe regards a small mouse reading a poem to an even smaller mouse collecting her wood chippings.
The Scottish Word:

Wee.

“She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a lo’esome wee thing,
This dear wee wife o’ mine.

I never saw a fairer,
I never lo’ed a dearer,
And neist my heart I’ll wear her,
For fear my jewel tine,

She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a lo’esome wee thing,
This dear wee wife o’ mine.

The warld’s wrack we share o’t;
The warsle and the care o’t;
Wi’ her I’ll blythely bear it,
And think my lot divine.

She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a lo’esome wee thing,
This dear wee wife o’ mine.”

Sings wee Rab the moose from the words by Robert Burns tae Jeanie the even wee-er moose.

Translate:

wee: small

Translations:
lo’some: lovesome; neist: next to; tine: in poetic terms to lose; warld’s: world’s; warsle: wrestle; wrack: wreck.

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The Scottish Word: wee with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

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