a. Anglo-Irish. [Of obscure origin. Cf. WEE a.] Very small, tiny.
1830. Carleton, Traits Ir. Peasantry (1843), I. 141. The first man he met was the weeshy fraction of a tailor, as nimble as a hare.
1842. Lover, Handy Andy, iii. And what weeshee little balls thim is, sir.
1894. McNulty, Misther O’Ryan, v. 48. I had larned … as a weeshy lad, to repate some ‘Spaches from the Dock.’
