"wee small hours" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: wee small hour [singular]
Etymology: From Scots wee sma' hours (first attested in 1819). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|sco|wee sma' hours}} Scots wee sma' hours Head templates: {{en-noun|p|sg=wee small hour}} wee small hours pl (normally plural, singular wee small hour)
  1. (informal) Synonym of wee hours. Tags: informal, plural, plural-normally Categories (topical): Times of day Synonyms: wee hours [synonym, synonym-of] Translations (very early morning): de vroege uurtjes (Dutch), petites heures du matin [feminine, plural] (French), petites heures de la matinée [feminine, plural] (French), petit matin [masculine] (French), petites heures [feminine, plural] (French), pola mañanciña (Galician), früher Morgen [masculine] (German), Morgengrauen [neuter] (German), ore piccole [feminine, plural] (Italian), mattinata [feminine] (Italian), o pogańskiej godzinie (Polish), предрассве́тные часы́ (predrassvétnyje časý) [masculine, plural] (Russian), wee sma' hours (Scots), ситни сати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), sitni sati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), madrugada [feminine] (Spanish), altas horas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), småtimmar [plural] (Swedish)
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