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Abbreviation of English Petapa/Taje.
pee
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Taje terms
- IPA(key): /ˈpiː/
- Homophones: P, p, pea
- Rhymes: -iː
The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.
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[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.
- 2024 February 17 (last accessed), Jenny Morber, “Scientists turn pee into power in Uganda”, in Upworthy Science[1]:
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) An act of urination.
He was dying for a pee.
I have to go for an urgent pee.- 1987 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Diplomatic Incident”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):
Um, by the way, make sure everyone knows if the papal envoy says "We desire to wash our hands", that means he wants to go and have a pee (laugh track)... Yes, a Royal wee (laugh track) — followed by a Royal flush (laugh track).
- 1987 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Diplomatic Incident”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):
See Thesaurus:urine
urine — see also urine
- Albanian: shurrë (sq) f
- Arabic: بَوْل m (bawl)
Hijazi Arabic: شُخَّان m (šuḵḵān), بول m (bōl) (formal) - Armenian: մեզ (hy) (mez)
- Azerbaijani: sidik (az), çiş
- Bashkir: һейҙек (heyźek)
- Bulgarian: пикня (bg) f (piknja), урина f (urina), пиш (piš) (baby talk)
- Burmese: သေး (my) (se:)
- Chinese:
Cantonese: 小便 (siu2 bin6), 殊殊 (syu4 syu4-2) (childish)
Mandarin: 小便 (zh) (xiǎobiàn), 尿泡 (zh) (niàopāo) - Danish: pis (da), tis (da)
- Dutch: plas (nl)
- Estonian: piss (et)
- Finnish: pissa (fi), pisu (fi), pissi (fi)
- French: pipi (fr) m
- Georgian: შარდი (ka) (šardi), ფსელი (pseli), ფისი (pisi) (baby language)
- German: Pipi (de) n
- Greek: κατουρλιό (el) n (katourlió), κάτουρο (el) n (kátouro), τσίσα (el) n pl (tsísa)
- Hebrew: שתן (he) (sheten)
- Hungarian: pisi (hu)
- Icelandic: piss n
- Irish: mún m
- Japanese: おしっこ (ja) (o-shikko), 小便 (ja) (しょうべん, shōben, しょんべん, shonben), しーしー (shīshī), ちっち (chitchi)
- Khmer: នោម (km) (noom)
- Latgalian: slapīņs m
- Latvian: mīzali pl
- Macedonian: мочка f (močka)
- Malay: kencing (ms)
- Marathi: सुसु (susu), सू f (sū)
- Norwegian: tiss (no) n
- Old English: miċġa m, miċġe f, migoþa m, hland (ang) n
- Persian: جیش (fa) (jiš)
- Polish: siusiu (pl), siki (pl) pl
- Portuguese: chichi (pt) (Portugal), xixi (pt) (Brazil), pipi (pt)
- Romanian: pipi (ro) n
- Russian: моча́ (ru) f (močá), пипи́ n (pipí)
- Sami:
Inari Sami: cissâ
Northern Sami: cisˈsa - Spanish: pis (es), pipí (es) m, (Chile) pichí (es) m, chis (es), meado (es) m, pichi (es) f (Peru), pishada (es) f (Argentina), pichín m (childish, colloquial), chis (es) m (childish)
- Swedish: kiss (sv) n
- Turkish: çiş (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: سیدك (sidik) - Urdu: شُوشُو (śūśū), سُوسُو (sūsū)
- Vietnamese: nước đái (vi), nước tiểu (vi)
- Welsh: pisiad
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.- 2011 December 5, Randall Munroe, “Drinking Fountains”, in xkcd[2]:
I've always wondered whether you could drink slowly enough, and eliminate fast enough, that you just sort of peed continuously. But I'm afraid to try because I worry someone might call while I'm doing it and ask what I'm up to, and I won't be able to think of a lie.
- (reflexive) To urinate on oneself.
- (transitive) To urinate in or on something, particularly clothing.
I was so excited, I peed the bed!
- 2011 December 5, Randall Munroe, “Drinking Fountains”, in xkcd[2]:
- (mildly vulgar, intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle.
It's peeing with rain.
wee (UK)
Armenian: միզել (hy) (mizel), (childish) չիշիկ անել (čʻišik anel)
Azerbaijani: işəmək, çiş eləmək, siymək
Bashkir: һейеү (heyew)
Bulgarian: пикая (bg) (pikaja), уринирам (bg) (uriniram), пишкам (piškam)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 小便 (siu2 bin6), 屙尿 (yue) (o1 niu6), 屙殊殊 (o1 syu4 syu2) (childish), 殊殊 (syu4 syu2) (childish)
Mandarin: 撒尿 (zh) (sāniào), 尿泡 (zh) (niàopāo), 小便 (zh) (xiǎobiàn)Faroese: pissa
French: faire pipi (fr), uriner (fr)
German: pinkeln (de), Pipi machen, pullern (de)
Irish: déan mún
Kazakh: сию (siü)
Latgalian: meizt, slapynuotīs, atvari pl
Māori: mimi
Norwegian: tisse (no), pisse, urinere, late vannet
Old English: mīgan
Portuguese: fazer chichi (Portugal), fazer xixi (Brazil)
Russian: пи́сать (ru) (písatʹ), мочи́ться (ru) (močítʹsja), си́кать (ru) (síkatʹ)
Spanish: hacer pis, mear (es), hacer chichí, hacer pipí (es), hacer chis, uixar (es) (Mexico), pishar (es) (Argentina)
Tagalog: pag-ihi
Tatar: сию (siyü)
Turkish: çiş yapmak (tr), işemek (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: سیمك (siymek) (of animals, especially dogs)Ukrainian: пі́сяти (uk) impf (písjaty), попі́сяти pf (popísjaty)
Walloon: fé pipisse (wa)
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."
- 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant:
- elpee
- mind one's pees and cues
- pee bee and jay
- PeeCee
- peejays
- teepee (toilet paper)
- veepee
name of the letter P, p
Afrikaans: pee
Arabic: بِيه m (bīh), پِي m (pī) (rare, using a Persian letter), بِي m (bī) (same as bee)
Bengali: পি (pi)
Bulgarian: пе n (pe)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)Faroese: pe n
Hawaiian: pī
Macedonian: пе n (pe)
Marathi: पी (pī)
(Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.
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.
- Only used to refer to decimal pence (the symbol for the old penny having been abbreviated d).
- (plural): p, pence
- (singular): p, penny
See peak.
pee (plural pees)
pee (plural pees)
pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin script letter P/p.
pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Probably from the Swedish letter name, itself ultimately from Latin pē.
pee
- pee (The name of the Latin script letter P/p.)
(Latin-script letter names) kirjain; aa, bee, see, dee, ee, äf / äffä, gee, hoo, ii, jii, koo, äl / ällä, äm / ämmä, än / ännä, oo, pee, kuu, är / ärrä, äs / ässä, tee, uu, vee, kaksoisvee / tuplavee, äks / äksä, yy, tset / tseta, ruotsalainen oo, ää, öö
From the first letter of paska (“shit”).
pee
From the first letter of perse (“arse”).
pee
- (uncountable, euphemistic) arse
Kaikki on päin peetä.
Everything is fucked up.
- “pee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (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
Old Galician-Portuguese
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Inherited from Latin pedem, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Cognate with Old Spanish pie and Old French pié.
pee m (plural pees)
- 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.
- 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.
pee
- inflection of peer:
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih.
pee
pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin script letter P/p.
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
From Middle English pye.
pee
- pie (pastry food)
From Middle English pye.
pee
- pie (woodpecker)
- maggota-pee
- 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