pee

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophones: P, p, pea
• Rhymes: -iː

The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.

pee (countable and uncountable, plural pees)

1. (informal, chiefly Canada, US, Australia) 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. (informal, chiefly Canada, US, Australia) An act of urination.

   He was dying for a pee.

• See Thesaurus:urine

• poo

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.

• wee (UK)
• urinate
• See Thesaurus:urinate

• poo

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."

• (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)

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.

• 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)

1. (nautical) The bill of an anchor.

• pea

pee (plural pees)

1. The sliding weight on a steelyard.

• Epe, eep

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

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

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

1. euphemism: arse, bum

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

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

pee

1. 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

1. (uncountable, euphemistic) shit.

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

pee

1. (uncountable, euphemistic) arse

   Kaikki on päin peetä.

   Everything is fucked up.

• “pee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (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

• pé

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.e/

pee m (plural pees)

1. 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.

• Galician: pé
• Portuguese: pé

• IPA^(key): /pɛˈɛ/

pee

1. you, ye (second person plural)

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pee

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih.

pee

1. stingray

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

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /piː/

From Middle English pye.

pee

1. pie (pastry food)

From Middle English pye.

pee

1. 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 61 & 55