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▪ I. † pee, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 5–7 pee, 5–6 Sc. pe, (pl. peys), 5–7 pie, 6 P, 7 py.
[In 15th c. pee, pe = late MDu. pîe, now pij, pije ‘coat of coarse woollen stuff’; found from 14th c. in comb. courtepy = Du. korte pîe short coat of this kind. Ulterior history obscure: see Franck. Now only (in the spelling pea) in pea-coat, pea-jacket, q.v.]
A coat of coarse cloth worn by men, esp. in the 16th century.
1483Acta Domin. Auditorum (1839) 112/1 Twa pee govnis ane of franch blak ane vþir of tanny, price of þe blak pee v li. 1490Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 191 Item, to Dave Caldwell,..Jame Dog and Wille Balfowre, x elne of russat to be thaim peys. 1494Ibid. 233, viij ellis of chamlet, rede and quhite, to be ilkain of thame a liffray pe. 1498Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 427 To Mabuys belman xxs. to by him ane pee for to pass ilka Mononday throucht the toune. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 174 Couchrane..was clad in ane ryding pie of blak wellvet. 1585–6Will of R. Thorpe (Somerset Ho.), One grene P or maundilion. a1623Fletcher Love's Cure ii. i, Your lashed shoulders [covered] with a velvet pee. 1635D. Dickson Pract. Wks. (1845) I. 127 A soldier's pie was put upon him.
b. Comb., as py-doublet, pee-, py-gown.
1483Pee govnis [see above]. 1648–78Hexham, Pije, Py-gown, or Rough-gown, as Souldiers and Seamen wear. 1673Wedderburn's Vocab. 23 (Jam.) Pectorale, a py-doublet.
▪ II. pee, n.2 Mining.|piː|
[History unknown.]
The portion common to two veins which intersect.
1653E. Manlove Lead Mines 44 (E.D.S.) Some take me for one thing, some for other free, As New thing, Old thing, Crosse-vein, Tee or Pee. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. O iij, If one Miner have a right to this Vein,..and another has a Right to a Vein which crosses it, and makes the Pee; he that comes to the Pee first takes it. 1851Act 14 & 15 Vict. c. 94 §13 If any Vein shall cross another Vein, the Miner who comes to the Pee or Intersection first shall have such Pee or Intersection.
▪ III. pee, n.3 Mining.
[Origin uncertain: ? = pea4.]
A small piece of ore.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. S j, The first pee or bit of Ore that the Cavers find in a Morning by Purchassing. 1824J. Mander Miner's Gloss. (E.D.D.), ‘Pee of ore’, a piece of ore gotten from the vein free from all spar, kevel.
▪ IV. pee, n.4
Abbreviation of calipee.
1764Foote Patron i. i, Not the meanest member of my Corporation but can distinguish the pash from the pee.
▪ V. pee, n.5|piː|
[f. pee v.2]
1. An act of urination.
1902R. C. Maclagan Evil Eye 51 The milk has gone along with the pee. 1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon xii. 156 The urinals alone would have a monument the size of London's Cenotaph... When they opened the sewer trap in the monumental pee-house great clouds of mosquitoes..rose from the opening. 1951S. Spender World within World 273 In Russia it's so cold that when you do a pee, you can break it off in sticks. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive xiii. 244, I must just do a pee. 1966J. Chamier Cannonball xiii. 119 Best go and have a pee, lad. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 23 Feb. 54/1 If people came in just to use the lavatory, he would ask them for their address ‘in case I need a pee when I'm passing your house’.
2. Urine.
1961H. Rudd Shores of Schizophrenia in My Escape from CIA (1966) 10 That gloomy, hideous building, with its smell of cedar sawdust and stale, infantile pee. 1968R. P. Warren Incarnations 43 Jesus, Wouldn't just being be enough without Having to have the pee..knocked out of You by a 1957 yellow Cadillac. 1971J. Osborne West of Suez i. 42 Do you know what the cure for chilblains was then? Soaking your feet and hands in your own pee. 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 16 Sarcasm runs off on them like pee on a plastic bedsheet.
▪ VI. pee, n.6 colloq.|piː|
[f. initial letter of penny.]
Representing the pronunciation of the initial letter of ‘penny’, i.e. a new penny, a unit of decimal currency introduced in Britain on 15 Feb. 1971. See also p s.v. *P II, penny I. 1.
The pronunciation of p. as |piː| is common in everyday speech but is avoided by many people, who prefer |ˈpɛnɪ| (as singular) and |pɛns| (as pl.).
1971Observer 14 Feb. 9/5 Everyone at the Decimal Currency Board has taken to calling new pence ‘pee’. 1972Daily Tel. 9 Aug. 16 If Mr. Broca had contacted us we would have sold him one not for ‘seventy-eight pees’, but for 69p. 1974Punch 6 Mar. 362/2 The Scandinavian revenue men..intimating that it's either an immediate fifty pee in the {pstlg} or chuck the belongings back into the red-spotted hankie and ring up a mini cab. 1974R. Rendell Face of Trespass ii. 23 May I trouble you for forty⁓two pee? 1974Observer (Colour Suppl.) 15 Dec. 13/4 Few could be bothered to say ‘new pence’ for the decimal stuff, so we used ‘pee’, and that is what we are lumbered with today. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Apr. 388/1 A small boy on the loose in London with a million pound picture in a laundry bag and ‘two pee’ in his pocket. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 187 He was accosted by a group of rotting cider bums: ‘Mister..we just need ten pee to get ourselves another bottle.’
▪ VII. pee, v.1 north. dial.|piː|
[Origin unascertained: cf. peek v.1]
intr. To look with one eye (as in taking aim); to squint; to peer.
1674Ray N.C. Words 37 He pees: He looks with one eye. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Pee,..is also to look near and narrowly. 1818Todd, To Pee,..to look with one eye. In use to this day in Cumberland. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Pee, to squint, to spy with one eye—to look through contracted eye-lids. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Pee,..to look with one eye, to squint, to take aim.
Hence pee-pee a., peering, squinting.
1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 20/2 Says I, that can't be Hoga's head, for Hoga had little pee pee eyes.
▪ VIII. pee, v.2 colloq.|piː|
[f. initial letter of piss v.]
1. intr. To urinate. Hence ˈpeeing vbl. n.
1879–80Pearl (1970) 216 Your private parts, or cunny, Should not be let for money, They're only meant to pee with. 1886in F. T. Elworthy West Somerset Word-Bk. 1929C. Connolly Let. Nov. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 329 It [sc. a kinkajou] seemed just a machine for shitting and peeing. 1932Auden Orators ii. 78 The boys, out of control, imbibe Vimto through india-rubber tubing, openly pee into the ink-pots. 1948M. McCarthy in Partisan Rev. Mar. 227 ‘My God’, you yell..‘can't a man pee in his own house?’ 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day 74 How to leave the room during lessons—I solved..by peeing in my trousers. 1963M. McCarthy Group iii. 56 Anybody..who wandered in to pee during a cocktail party. 1965J. R. Hetherington Selina's Aunt 50, I could laugh till I peed. 1966A. La Bern Goodbye Piccadilly xi. 109, I kept wanting to pee every few minutes. 1969P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 132 Here is how I learnt to pee into the bowl like a big man. 1971N. Saunders Alternative London (ed. 2) 236 As above for ladies, not so easily cured though peeing just after sex is meant to help. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 74 She looked fretful, importunate, almost bouncing up and down, like a little girl wanting to pee. 1975Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 23 Feb. 26/2 The guys were forever peeing over the side so there was piss everywhere.
2. a. trans. To wet by urinating.
1788E. Picken Epitaph Favourite Cat in Poems & Epistles 47 He never stealt, though he was poor, Nor ever pee'd his master's floor. 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams 219 She nearly pees her pants every time he kids to her.
b. refl. To urinate into one's clothes; esp. (hyperbolically) in phr. to pee oneself laughing.
1946G. Kersh Clean, Bright & Slightly Oiled i. 4 Even the Sarn-Major peed 'imself laughing. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed xv. 104 You did wrong to hit..so much... I peed myself. 1978R. Busby Garvey's Code xii. 168 He must've realized what was going to happen..because he peed himself right there.
▪ IX. pee, pee and kew
see P, the letter.
▪ X. pee
variant of pea3. |