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Wi-wi2. World English Historical Dictionary

Wi-wi2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wi-wi2 Austral. slang. Also wewi, wee-wee, oui oui. [ad. F. oui, oui yes, yes, taken as typical of the French language.] A Frenchman; also as pl. the French.

1 1845.  E. J. Wakefield, Adv. N. Z., I. iv. 94. If I had sold the land to the White missionaries, might they not have sold it again to the Wiwi (Frenchmen) or Americans?

2 1852.  Mundy, Antipodes (1857), 180. Young chiefs … who will,… like the ‘Wi-wis’ of Young France, indulge occasionally in what that volatile people style ‘revolutions intestines!’

3 1859.  A. S. Thomson, Story N. Z., I. II. i. 236. The Wewis, as the French are now called.

4 1872.  Earl Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley, S. Sea Bubbles, i. 20. Would that the imperious ‘Oui-oui’ had never placed foot upon your sacred shores!

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