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Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Petapa/Taje.

Symbol

pee

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Taje.

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.

Noun

pee (countable and uncountable, plural pees) (informal)

  1. Urine.
    • 2024 February 17 (last accessed), Jenny Morber, “Scientists turn pee into power in Uganda”, in Upworthy Science:
      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.
  2. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) An act of urination.
    He was dying for a pee.
    I have to go for an urgent pee.
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Verb

pee (third-person singular simple present pees, present participle peeing, simple past and past participle peed)

  1. (intransitive, colloquial) 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.
    1. (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.
    2. (transitive) To urinate in or on something, particularly clothing.
      I was so excited, I peed the bed!
  2. (mildly vulgar, intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle.
    It's peeing with rain.
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Etymology 2

    Noun

    pee (plural pees)

    1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/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."
    Derived terms
    These words are more commonly written with capital letters (LP, TP, etc)
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    Etymology 3

    Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.

    Noun

    pee (plural pee)

    1. (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.
    Usage notes
    • Only used to refer to decimal pence (the symbol for the old penny having been abbreviated d).
    Synonyms

    Etymology 4

    See peak.

    Noun

    pee (plural pees)

    1. (nautical) The bill of an anchor.

    Etymology 5

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    pee (plural pees)

    1. The sliding weight on a steelyard.

    Anagrams

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    Estonian

    Noun

    pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

    1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

    Noun

    pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

    1. euphemism: arse, bum

    Finnish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈpeː/, [ˈpe̞ː]
    • Rhymes: -eː
    • Syllabification(key): pee
    • Hyphenation(key): pee

    Etymology 1

      Probably from the Swedish letter name, itself ultimately from Latin .

      Noun

      pee

      1. pee (The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.)
      Declension
      More information nominative, genitive ...
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      Derived terms
      compounds
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      Etymology 2

        From the first letter of paska (shit).

        Noun

        pee

        1. (uncountable, euphemistic) shit.
        Declension
        More information nominative, genitive ...
        More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

        Etymology 3

          From the first letter of perse (arse).

          Noun

          pee

          1. (uncountable, euphemistic) arse
            Kaikki on päin peetä.
            Everything is fucked up.
          Declension
          More information nominative, genitive ...
          More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

          Further reading

          • pee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004, retrieved 1 January 2024
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          Old Galician-Portuguese

          Alternative forms

          Etymology

          Inherited from Latin pedem, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Cognate with Old Spanish pie and Old French pié.

          Pronunciation

          Noun

          pee m (plural pees)

          1. foot
            • 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.

          Descendants

          • Galician:
          • Portuguese:
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          Spanish

          Verb

          pee

          1. inflection of peer:
            1. third-person singular present indicative
            2. second-person singular imperative

          Tobilung

          Etymology

          From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih.

          Noun

          pee

          1. stingray

          Võro

          Noun

          pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

          1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

          Inflection

          This noun needs an inflection-table template.

          Yola

          Pronunciation

          Etymology 1

          From Middle English pye.

          Noun

          pee

          1. pie (pastry food)

          Etymology 2

          From Middle English pye.

          Noun

          pee

          1. pie (woodpecker)
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          References

          • 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 55 & 61

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