pee
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.
Noun edit
pee (countable and uncountable, plural pees)
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, euphemistic, often childish) Urine.
- 2024 February 17 (last accessed), Jenny Morber, “Scientists turn pee into power in Uganda”, in Upworthy Science[1]:
- With conventional fuel cells as their model, researchers learned to use similar chemical reactions to make a fuel from microbes in pee. […] They got to use new, clean toilets lit by the power of their own pee. […] Microorganisms that feed on nutrients in urine can be used in a microbial fuel cell that generates electricity – or "pee power," as the Sesame girls called it.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, euphemistic, often childish) An act of urination.
- He was dying for a pee.
Synonyms edit
- See Thesaurus:urine
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Verb edit
pee (third-person singular simple present pees, present participle peeing, simple past and past participle peed)
- (euphemistic, intransitive, colloquial, often childish) To urinate.
- The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal.
- The delivery driver took a minute to pee in the woods between houses.
- (reflexive) To urinate on oneself.
- 1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:
- See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are blackheads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night.
- (transitive) To urinate in or on something, particularly clothing.
- I was so excited, I peed the bed!
- (mildly vulgar, intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle.
- It's peeing with rain.
Synonyms edit
- wee (UK)
- urinate
- See Thesaurus:urinate
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pee (plural pees)
- The name of the Latin-script letter P.
- 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant:
- They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.
- 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
- It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
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- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Etymology 3 edit
Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.
Noun edit
pee (plural pee)
- (British, Ireland, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money)
- I bought these carrots for fifty pee.
- I can't afford that — I'm one pee short.
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Etymology 4 edit
See peak.
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pee (plural pees)
Etymology 5 edit
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pee (plural pees)
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Estonian edit
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pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter P.
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pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Probably from the Swedish letter name, itself ultimately from Latin pē.
Noun edit
pee
- pee (The name of the Latin-script letter P.)
Declension edit
Inflection of pee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pee | peet | ||
genitive | peen | peiden peitten | ||
partitive | peetä | peitä | ||
illative | peehen | peihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pee | peet | ||
accusative | nom. | pee | peet | |
gen. | peen | |||
genitive | peen | peiden peitten | ||
partitive | peetä | peitä | ||
inessive | peessä | peissä | ||
elative | peestä | peistä | ||
illative | peehen | peihin | ||
adessive | peellä | peillä | ||
ablative | peeltä | peiltä | ||
allative | peelle | peille | ||
essive | peenä | peinä | ||
translative | peeksi | peiksi | ||
abessive | peettä | peittä | ||
instructive | — | pein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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- (Latin-script letter names) kirjain; aa, bee, see, dee, ee, äf / äffä, gee, hoo, ii, jii, koo, äl / ällä, äm / ämmä, än / ännä, oo, pee, kuu, är / ärrä, äs / ässä, tee, uu, vee, kaksoisvee / tuplavee, äks / äksä, yy, tset / tseta, ruotsalainen oo, ää, öö
Etymology 2 edit
From the first letter of paska (“shit”).
Noun edit
pee
Etymology 3 edit
From the first letter of perse (“arse”).
Noun edit
pee
- (uncountable, euphemistic) arse
- Kaikki on päin peetä.
- Everything is fucked up.
Further reading edit
- “pee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-01-01
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin pedem, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Cognate with Old Spanish pie and Old French pié.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pee m (plural pees)
- foot
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 127 (facsimile):
- Eſta e como ſanta maria nȯ q̇s q̇ entraſſe na ſa eigreia do poe un mancebo q̇ dera aſſa madre un couce ⁊ el pois uiu q̇ nȯ podia enẗr cortoo pee ⁊ de pois ſãou ſanta maria.
- This one is (about) how Holy Mary didn't want that a young man, who had kicked his mother, entered her church in Puy. And he, seeing that he couldn't enter, cut his foot and later Holy Mary healed it.
- Eſta e como ſanta maria nȯ q̇s q̇ entraſſe na ſa eigreia do poe un mancebo q̇ dera aſſa madre un couce ⁊ el pois uiu q̇ nȯ podia enẗr cortoo pee ⁊ de pois ſãou ſanta maria.
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Spanish edit
Verb edit
pee
- inflection of peer:
Tobilung edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih.
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pee
Võro edit
Noun edit
pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter P.
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Yola edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English pye.
Noun edit
pee
- pie (pastry food)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English pye.
Noun edit
pee
- pie (woodpecker)
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References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 61 & 55