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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pee"
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Petapa/Taje.
Symbol
pee
See also
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophones: P, p, pea
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.
Noun
pee (countable and uncountable, plural pees) (informal)
- 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.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) An act of urination.
- He was dying for a pee.
- I have to go for an urgent pee.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:urine
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
urine — see also urine
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Verb
pee (third-person singular simple present pees, present participle peeing, simple past and past participle peed)
- (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.
- (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
- wee (UK)
- urinate
- See Thesaurus:urinate
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
urinate — see also urinate
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Etymology 2
Noun
pee (plural pees)
- 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)
Translations
name of the letter P, p
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See also
Etymology 3
Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.
Noun
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.
Usage notes
Synonyms
Etymology 4
See peak.
Noun
pee (plural pees)
Etymology 5
Alternative forms
Noun
pee (plural pees)
Anagrams
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Estonian
Noun
pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
Noun
pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Probably from the Swedish letter name, itself ultimately from Latin pē.
Noun
pee
- pee (The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.)
Declension
Derived terms
compounds
See also
Etymology 2
From the first letter of paska (“shit”).
Noun
pee
Declension
Etymology 3
From the first letter of perse (“arse”).
Noun
pee
- (uncountable, euphemistic) arse
- Kaikki on päin peetä.
- Everything is fucked up.
Declension
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)
- foot
- a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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.
Descendants
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Spanish
Verb
pee
- inflection of peer:
Tobilung
Etymology
Noun
pee
Võro
Noun
pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English pye.
Noun
pee
- pie (pastry food)
Etymology 2
From Middle English pye.
Noun
pee
- pie (woodpecker)
Derived terms
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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