pee
/piː
/informal
verb (pees, peeing, peed) [no object]
1Urinate: the puppy was peeing on the carpet...
- We wonder why the dogs always drink out of our toilets, but look at it from their point of view - why do humans keep peeing into their water bowls?
- I drank massive amounts of water and peed very little.
- You teach your kitten to fetch, and two days later he's chewing your slippers to bits and peeing on the carpet, one leg in the air.
1.1 [with object] (pee oneself/one's pants) Urinate involuntarily (often used to suggest loss of self-control through fear or hilarity): Mom just about peed herself laughing...
- My previous dog would practically pee herself with fear if I said ‘No!’
- I just about peed myself, I was laughing so hard.
- I laughed until I almost peed my pants at Fred Mitchell's weekly column today.
noun [mass noun]
1Urine.I've had to steam clean the walls because they were brown with smoke and the place absolutely stank of pee....
- Sheba's young man is never more than a peripheral figure in Barbara's account, a crude and insensitive boy ‘with lank hair the colour of pee.’
- Consequently you end up with a load of unwanted, unnecessary tat like a novelty stand for your mobile phone, an after-shave that smells like cat pee, or a six-pack of socks in fluorescent, lime green.
1.1 [count noun] An act of urinating: she was bursting for a pee...
- When I got home, I messed about for a bit and went to take a pee.
- Even if you walked into the men's room to take a pee.
- Little boys occasionally take a pee when they can't contain themselves.
Phrases
peed off
Origin
Late 18th century: euphemistic use of the initial letter of piss.