A little while; for a short time, used in Scottish and Northern English dialects.
From a- (on, in a state of) + wee (from Old Norse lítill via Scots, meaning 'small'). The word combines the prefix with an adjective meaning 'little' to create a temporal expression.
Scottish English preserves old words like 'awee' that show how 'wee' originally meant 'little' in both space and time—a tiny distance or a tiny duration.
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