pee

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See also: Pee, PEE, peé, peẽ, pêe, p'ee, and pêê

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiː/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: P, p, pea

Etymology 1[edit]

The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.

Noun[edit]

pee (countable and uncountable, plural pees)

  1. (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.
  2. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, euphemistic, often childish) An act of urination.
    He was dying for a pee.
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Verb[edit]

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

  1. (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.
    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[edit]

Noun[edit]

pee (plural pees)

  1. 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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Etymology 3[edit]

Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.

Noun[edit]

pee (plural pee)

  1. (UK, 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[edit]
  • Only used to refer to decimal pence (the symbol for the old penny having been abbreviated d).
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Etymology 4[edit]

See peak.

Noun[edit]

pee (plural pees)

  1. (nautical) The bill of an anchor.

Etymology 5[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

pee (plural pees)

  1. The sliding weight on a steelyard.

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Estonian[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. euphemism: arse, bum

Finnish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

pee

  1. pee (The name of the Latin-script letter P.)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of pee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
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.
Possessive forms of pee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative peeni peeni
accusative nom. peeni peeni
gen. peeni
genitive peeni peideni
peitteni
partitive peetäni peitäni
inessive peessäni peissäni
elative peestäni peistäni
illative peeheni peihini
adessive peelläni peilläni
ablative peeltäni peiltäni
allative peelleni peilleni
essive peenäni peinäni
translative peekseni peikseni
abessive peettäni peittäni
instructive — —
comitative — peineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative peesi peesi
accusative nom. peesi peesi
gen. peesi
genitive peesi peidesi
peittesi
partitive peetäsi peitäsi
inessive peessäsi peissäsi
elative peestäsi peistäsi
illative peehesi peihisi
adessive peelläsi peilläsi
ablative peeltäsi peiltäsi
allative peellesi peillesi
essive peenäsi peinäsi
translative peeksesi peiksesi
abessive peettäsi peittäsi
instructive — —
comitative — peinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative peemme peemme
accusative nom. peemme peemme
gen. peemme
genitive peemme peidemme
peittemme
partitive peetämme peitämme
inessive peessämme peissämme
elative peestämme peistämme
illative peehemme peihimme
adessive peellämme peillämme
ablative peeltämme peiltämme
allative peellemme peillemme
essive peenämme peinämme
translative peeksemme peiksemme
abessive peettämme peittämme
instructive — —
comitative — peinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative peenne peenne
accusative nom. peenne peenne
gen. peenne
genitive peenne peidenne
peittenne
partitive peetänne peitänne
inessive peessänne peissänne
elative peestänne peistänne
illative peehenne peihinne
adessive peellänne peillänne
ablative peeltänne peiltänne
allative peellenne peillenne
essive peenänne peinänne
translative peeksenne peiksenne
abessive peettänne peittänne
instructive — —
comitative — peinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative peensä peensä
accusative nom. peensä peensä
gen. peensä
genitive peensä peidensä
peittensä
partitive peetään
peetänsä 		peitään
peitänsä
inessive peessään
peessänsä 		peissään
peissänsä
elative peestään
peestänsä 		peistään
peistänsä
illative peehensä peihinsä
adessive peellään
peellänsä 		peillään
peillänsä
ablative peeltään
peeltänsä 		peiltään
peiltänsä
allative peelleen
peellensä 		peilleen
peillensä
essive peenään
peenänsä 		peinään
peinänsä
translative peekseen
peeksensä 		peikseen
peiksensä
abessive peettään
peettänsä 		peittään
peittänsä
instructive — —
comitative — peineen
peinensä
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compounds
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Etymology 2[edit]

From the first letter of paska (“shit”).

Noun[edit]

pee

  1. (uncountable, euphemistic) shit.

Etymology 3[edit]

From the first letter of perse (“arse”).

Noun[edit]

pee

  1. (uncountable, euphemistic) arse
    Kaikki on päin peetä.
    Everything is fucked up.

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Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]

FWOTD – 19 July 2013

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

pee m (plural pees)

  1. 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.

Descendants[edit]

  • Galician: pé
  • Portuguese: pé

Old Tupi[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

pee

  1. you, ye (second person plural)

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Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

pee

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

Tobilung[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih.

Noun[edit]

pee

  1. stingray

Võro[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

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

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yola[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English pye.

Noun[edit]

pee

  1. pie (pastry food)

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English pye.

Noun[edit]

pee

  1. 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
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