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