pee-pee
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Etymology edit
Probably a reduplication of pee, but compare French pipi, German Pipi, Italian pipì, Latin pipinna, Romanian pipi, Spanish pipí, Turkish pipi, and Greek πιπί (pipí).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pee-pee (countable and uncountable, plural pee-pees)
- (colloquial, usually childish) Urine.
- (colloquial, usually childish) The penis or vulva; genitalia.
- 1875, Lewis A. Sayre, Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery and diseases of the joints, page 14:
- […] while passing the sponge over the upper part of the little fellow's thighs, the nurse cried out, "O, doctor! be very careful—don't touch his pee-pee—it's very sore;" and upon examining his penis I found it in a state of extreme erection.
- 1980, Alona Frankel, Once Upon a Potty:
- A pee-pee for making Wee-Wee.
- 2001, A.H. Brafman, Untying the Knot: Working with Children and Parents:
- Using the word familiar to Claude […] , I said that he seemed to be afraid that he would lose "his pee-pee", since he imagined that his sister and his mother had lost theirs […]
- 2001, R. Timothy Kearney, Caring for Sexually Abused Children, page 11:
- While washing her daughter's hair, Suzie looked up and asked her if she would wash her "pee-pee" too.
- 2011, Sandra B. McPherson, Farshid Afsarifard, Equivocal Child Abuse, page 150:
- When asked if Hubie touched her pee-pee or if she touched Hubie's pee-pee, she repeatedly replied, “No.”
- 2014, Elsbeth Renee O'Lea, Trolls, Snakes and Shadow People, page 26:
- She has also said her dad is mean and hurt her pee pee. She ask [sic] a lot about if people are going to look at her pee pee (i.e. Doctors, different apts. we go to, that is her first question to me).
Translations edit
childish: urine — see wee-wee
childish: genitalia — see wee-wee
Verb edit
pee-pee (third-person singular simple present pee-pees, present participle pee-peeing, simple past and past participle pee-peed)