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Blend of Peeta +‎ Katniss, as an intentional, jocular homophone of penis.

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Peeniss

  1. (fandom slang, humorous) The ship of characters Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series.
    • 2012 October 11, Haley Boston, “The Rundown”, in The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University, page 4:
      We think they should just move on because everyone has ditched Team Edward for Team PeeNiss.
    • 2014 November 24, Gillian Edevane, “Penultimate ‘Hunger Games’ features geopolitical undertones”, in The Daily Californian:
      They just want to see Katniss and Peeta — or, as the Interwebs have so graciously dubbed their union, “Peeniss” — pair off.
    • 2019, "allisonarghent-archive", quoted in Lina Holst & Rebecca Ågren, "'It’s not a phase, Mom!!!': Om identitetsskapande inom fankultur", thesis submitted to the University of Gothenburg, page 61:
      do i have a preference between galeniss and peeniss (or everlark vs. everthorne idk what’s katniss/gale’s last name ship name?) yes.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peeniss.

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