† peen.1
Obsolete.
A man's coat or jacket of coarse fabric, worn esp. in the 16th cent. Cf. riding pee n. at riding n.1 Compounds 3 and pea-jacket n., pea coat n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat > types of
pee1483
shuba1598
surtout1686
wrap-rascal1716
pea-jacket1717
box coat1718
toggy1742
jockey-coata1745
redingote1770
Polonese coat1774
pea coat1790
spencer1795
grego1809
benjamin1810
bang-up1835
pilot jacket1839
pilot coat1840
Petersham1842
taglioni1843
Chesterfield1852
siphonia1853
raglan1857
Inverness overcoat1865
immensikoff1870
Ulster1876
ulsterette1881
coat1889
polonaise1890
covert coata1893
benny1903
macfarlane1920
1483 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 112*/1 Price of the blak pee v li.
1494 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 233 viij ellis of chamlet, rede and quhite, to be ilkain of thame a liffray pe.
1498 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 427 To Mabuys belman xxs. to by him ane pee for to pass ilka Mononday throucht the toune.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 174 Couchrane..was clad in ane ryding pie of blak wellvet.
1586 Will of Robert Thorpe (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/69) f. 324 One grene P or maundilion.
?1635 in D. Dickson Sel. Pract. Writings (1845) (modernized text) 127 A soldier's pie was put upon him.
a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrrv/1 Your lashed Shoulders [covered] with a Velvet Pee.
c1670 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 143 Pys.
Compounds
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > doublet > types of
pourpointa1325
waist-doublet1553
belly-doublet1598
pee-doublet1600
crop-doublet1640
1600 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 158 That my lord wes seyand on a py dowblett with the theis and the taill pecis for the wamb.
a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 23 Pectorale, a py-doublet.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > made of or trimmed with specific material
pee-gown1483
pelissona1492
rug gown1558
fox-fur1598
shuba1598
budge-gown1649
Hungerlin1650
foins-gown1692
1483 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 112*/1 Twa pee govnis ane of Franche blak ane vthir of tanny.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Pije, pie-gowne, or Rough-gowne, as Souldiers and Sea-men weare.
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peen.2
/piː/, U.S. /pi/ Mining. Now historical.
The portion common to two veins which intersect.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > join or intersection
pee?1644
tee1653
tie1747
?1644 G. Hopkinson Laws & Customs Mines Wappentake of Wirksworth (1948) 14/1 Where there are two Cross Rakes meet in one place, there the meeting of the said two Rakes is called the Pee.
1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 2 Some take for one thing, some for other free, As new thing, old thing, Crosse-vein, Tee, or Pee.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Oiij 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.
1851 Act 14 & 15 Victoria 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.
1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry 496 Pee, two veins crossing each other obliquely.
1998 J. H. Rieuwerts Gloss. Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms 118/2 Pee, the intersection of two veins.
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peen.3
/piː/, U.S. /pi/ Mining. Now historical.
A small piece of ore.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > piece or lump of ore
gold stone1626
pee1678
floater1717
stone of tin1778
knit1881
1678 Deposition H. White art. 9 in P.R.O. DL 4/120/1/1678/1 f. 3v A Pee of Oare..upon which they digged and searched deeper.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Sj The first pee or bit of Ore that the Cavers find in a Morning by Purchassing.
1824 J. Mander Derbyshire Miners' Gloss. (E.D.D.) ‘Pee of ore’, a piece of ore gotten from the vein free from all spar, kevel.
1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry 496/1 Pee,..a piece of lead ore.
1998 J. H. Rieuwerts Gloss. Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms 118/2 Pees of ore, small pieces of ore, the size of walnuts.
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† peen.4
Obsolete. rare.
= calipee n.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > turtles or sea-tortoises > parts of
calipash1674
calipee1689
hut1698
monsieur1751
pee1764
turtle-shell1828
hyosternal1835
xiphiplastron1871
xiphisternum1872
pygal1885
xiphiplastral1889
turtle-back1898
1764 S. Foote Patron i. 7 Not the meanest member of my corporation but can distinguish the pash from the pee.
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peen.5
/piː/, U.S. /pi/ colloquial.
1. An act of urination. Esp. in to have (also do, take) a pee.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination
pissinga1398
urine1561
urination1599
staling1601
miction1663
urining1668
piss?1837
piddle1870
micturating1879
pee1880
pee-wee1909
wet1925
peeing1929
leak1934
Jimmy Riddle1937
wee-wee1937
tinkle1939
run-off1944
slash1950
No. 11965
wee1968
widdle1969
gypsy's kiss1971
Jimmy1971
whizz1971
gypsy's1972
void1980
wazz1994
1880 Pearl Oct. 137 He actually produced the poe from under the bed, and made me sit down and do my pee.
1902 R. C. Maclagan Evil Eye 51 The milk has gone along with the pee.
1951 S. Spender World within World 273 In Russia it's so cold that when you do a pee, you can break it off in sticks.
1966 J. Chamier Cannonball xiii. 119 Best go and have a pee, lad.
1988 D. Glover in M. Atwood Best Amer. Stories 1989 (1989) 187 When their father had a pee before breakfast, it sounded like Niagara Falls.
2. Urine.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > urine > [noun]
migeOE
addleOE
lantc1000
urinec1325
pissa1387
stalea1400
watera1400
stalingc1420
lage1567
urine-river1633
emiction1666
sig1691
tea1693
piddle1870
number one1902
pee-wee1909
pee-pee1923
widdle1925
wee-wee1937
pee1957
wee1968
1957 J. Agee Death in Family xiii. 242 They sat in the big room and it was full of people... It smelled like chewing tobacco and pee.
1968 R. 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.
1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 16 Sarcasm runs off on them like pee on a plastic bedsheet.
1992 City Limits 2 July 72/1 King turns his attention to urine: to wit, the multipurpose pee of female mice, which acts as a birth control and an accelerant for sexual maturity.
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peen.6
/piː/, U.S. /pi/ colloquial.
A new penny of the decimal currency introduced in Britain in 1971. See penny n. 1a.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > penny > decimal penny
pence1652
P1909
pee1971
1971 Observer 14 Feb. 9/5 Everyone at the Decimal Currency Board has taken to calling new pence ‘pee’.
1986 Punch 16 July 30/3 It's a lightweight, creamy sort of jacket... The OT bought it at a jumble for twenty pee.
1989 Correspondent Mag. 29 Oct. 66/2 Sous, like farthings, no longer exist and centimes, like pees, seem to afford fewer ranting opportunities.
1992 Guardian 28 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 10/2 When I get back to the car with them, I give Frank the bill with the pee change from his fifty-pound note.
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peev.1
/piː/, U.S. /pi/ English regional (northern and midlands).
intransitive. To look with one eye (as in taking aim). Also: to look with narrowed eyes; to squint, peer.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > peer
toot?c1225
porec1300
pirea1393
peer1580
pink1587
under-peer1589
blink1600
to look wormsc1600
squinny1608
pee1673
pore1706
pinker1754
styme1808
speer1866
squint1891
quiz1906
skeeze1922
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 37 He pees: He looks with one eye.
1703 R. Thoresby List Local Words in J. Ray Philosoph. Lett. (1718) 334 Pee, is also [to] look near and narrowly.
1818 R. Wilbraham in E. Leigh Gloss. Words. Dial. Cheshire (1877) 153 Pee, to look with one eye. To peep.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Pee, to squint, to spy with one eye—to look through contracted eye-lids.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Pee, to look with one eye, to squint, to take aim.
1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 212 Ah shot t'teaah ee an try't peean up sideways at it.
a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Pee, to aim by closing one eye.
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peev.2
/piː/, U.S. /pi/ colloquial. = piss v.
1.
a. transitive. To urinate in or on (something); to wet with urine. Cf. wet v. 5c.In quot. 1805: to excrete (urine).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with urine
pissc1390
bepiss1481
compiss1653
wet1767
urinate1768
pee1788
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 47 He [sc. a cat] never stealt, though he was poor, Nor ever pee'd his master's floor.
1805 G. McIndoe Poems & Songs 39 He pies his dam upon his mither, And mak's a midden o' her lap.
1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams ii. xii. 219 She nearly pees her pants every time he kids to her.
1959 R. Fuller Ruined Boys 195 He beat me at the beginning of term for peeing my bed.
1982 G. Vanderhaeghe in M. Atwood & R. Weaver Oxf. Bk. Canad. Short Stories (1986) 405 If you want that rubber thing off, you try and remember not to pee the bed.
1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 229 A month before they'd have peed their pants at the thought of the cops catching them driving out to the lake with an open six-pack on the back seat.
b. transitive (reflexive). To urinate involuntarily in one's underclothes, usually as the result of extreme fear, hilarity, or excitement; (also in extended use) to be extremely frightened, amused, or excited.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh convulsively or immoderately
chuckle1598
to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides1598
to die with, or of laughing1609
to hold one's sides1609
to laugh till (also until) one cries1611
split1688
to burst one's sides1712
shake1729
to shake one's sides1736
to laugh oneself sick (also silly)1773
roll1819
to laugh one's head off1871
to break up1895
to fall about1918
pee1946
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (reflexive)] > dirty with urine
pee1946
1946 G. Kersh Clean, Bright & Slightly Oiled i. 4 Even the Sarn-Major peed 'imself laughing.
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xv. 104 You did wrong to hit..so much... I peed myself.
1978 R. Busby Garvey's Code xii. 168 He must've realized what was going to happen..because he peed himself right there.
1991 R. P. MacIntyre Yuletide Blues xiii. 93 Mom just about pees herself laughing.
2. intransitive. To urinate.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)]
migheeOE
pissc1300
to make water?a1475
stale1530
leak1598
urinate1599
minge1606
urine1607
water1631
stroana1730
to pass water1738
to pump ship1759
piddle1784
to make one's burn1788
pittle1801
pee1825
micturate1842
tiddlea1852
leck1922
wet1925
whizz1929
wee-wee1930
wee1934
widdle1934
to go (make) wee-wee1937
tinkle1943
void1947
to take a leak1969
potty1972
slash1973
wazz1984
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. To pee, to make water.
1879–80 Pearl (1970) 216 Your private parts, or cunny, Should not be let for money, They're only meant to pee with.
1932 W. H. Auden Orators ii. 78 The boys..openly pee into the ink-pots.
1948 M. McCarthy in Partisan Rev. Mar. 227 Can't a man pee in his own house?
1965 J. R. Hetherington Selina's Aunt 50 I could laugh till I peed.
1975 Sunday Times 23 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 26/2 The guys were forever peeing over the side so there was piss everywhere.
1994 C. McWilliam Debatable Land (1995) iii. 85 Alec was bursting to pee but could not.
3. to pee off.
a. intransitive. Originally and chiefly British. To leave, go away. Often in imperative, sometimes expressing annoyance or irritation, rather than a literal command to leave. Cf. to piss off at piss v. Phrasal verbs.
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1940 P. Larkin Let. 9 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 3 Then we peed off, I lugging my suitcase.
1994 Church Times 9 Sept. 1/3 One of the men told me to pee off and they drove away.
2002 Express (Nexis) 13 May 26 I'm meant to have told Paisley to eff-off. I never did. I told him to pee-off.
b. transitive. Originally U.S. To irritate or anger (a person). Cf. to piss off at piss v. Phrasal verbs.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
gremec893
dretchc900
awhenec1000
teenOE
fretc1290
annoyc1300
atrayc1320
encumberc1330
diseasec1340
grindc1350
distemperc1386
offenda1387
arra1400
avexa1400
derea1400
miscomforta1400
angerc1400
engrievec1400
vex1418
molesta1425
entrouble?1435
destroublea1450
poina1450
rubc1450
to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450
disprofit1483
agrea1492
trouble1515
grig1553
mis-set?1553
nip?1553
grate1555
gripe1559
spitec1563
fike?1572
gall1573
corsie1574
corrosive1581
touch1581
disaccommodate1586
macerate1588
perplex1590
thorn1592
exulcerate1593
plague1595
incommode1598
affret1600
brier1601
to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
discommodate1606
incommodate1611
to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
shog1636
ulcerate1647
incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
discommodiate1654
discommode1657
ruffle1659
regrate1661
disoblige1668
torment1718
pesta1729
chagrin1734
pingle1740
bothera1745
potter1747
wherrit1762
to tweak the nose of1784
to play up1803
tout1808
rasp1810
outrage1818
worrit1818
werrit1825
buggerlug1850
taigle1865
get1867
to give a person the pip1881
to get across ——1888
nark1888
eat1893
to twist the tail1895
dudgeon1906
to tweak the tail of1909
sore1929
to put up1930
wouldn't it rip you!1941
sheg1943
to dick around1944
cheese1946
to pee off1946
to honk off1970
to fuck off1973
to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977
to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983
to wind up1984
to dick about1996
to-teen-
1946 Amer. Speech 21 33 He pissed (or peed) me off, an expression used of a person who in any way disappointed the speaker.
1963 L. Cameron Black Camp 48 The thing that really pees me off..is the unfairness of it all.
1983 E. McClanahan Nat. Man (1984) iii. 26 The thing that pees Norbert P. Stickler off personally is a bunch of boys which won't put out for him.
2003 Northern Echo (Nexis) 24 Apr. 13 He peed me off, to be honest.
Derivatives
ˈpeeing n.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination
pissinga1398
urine1561
urination1599
staling1601
miction1663
urining1668
piss?1837
piddle1870
micturating1879
pee1880
pee-wee1909
wet1925
peeing1929
leak1934
Jimmy Riddle1937
wee-wee1937
tinkle1939
run-off1944
slash1950
No. 11965
wee1968
widdle1969
gypsy's kiss1971
Jimmy1971
whizz1971
gypsy's1972
void1980
wazz1994
1929 C. Connolly Let. Nov. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 329 It [sc. a kinkajou] seemed just a machine for shitting and peeing.
1991 M. Nicholson Martha Jane & Me (1992) vi. 54 If by any chance the horse started to ‘do his number one’ as we called peeing.
2004 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Mar. I'm hearing reports about an unusual outbreak of public urination... Peeing is part of the ambiance of the neighborhood most of the time.
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