pee-pee

English

Alternative forms

• peepee, pee pee

Etymology

Probably a reduplication of pee, but compare French pipi, German Pipi, Italian pipì, Latin pipinna, Romanian pipi, Spanish pipí, Turkish pipi, and Greek πιπί (pipí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːpiː/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːpiː

Noun

pee-pee (countable and uncountable, plural pee-pees)

1. (colloquial, usually childish) Urine.
2. (colloquial, usually childish) The penis or vulva; genitalia.
   • 1875, Lewis A. Sayre, Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery and diseases of the joints, page 14:

     […] while passing the sponge over the upper part of the little fellow's thighs, the nurse cried out, "O, doctor! be very careful—don't touch his pee-pee—it's very sore;" and upon examining his penis I found it in a state of extreme erection.

   • 1980, Alona Frankel, Once Upon a Potty:

     A pee-pee for making Wee-Wee.

   • 2001, A.H. Brafman, Untying the Knot: Working with Children and Parents:

     Using the word familiar to Claude […] , I said that he seemed to be afraid that he would lose "his pee-pee", since he imagined that his sister and his mother had lost theirs […]

   • 2001, R. Timothy Kearney, Caring for Sexually Abused Children, page 11:

     While washing her daughter's hair, Suzie looked up and asked her if she would wash her "pee-pee" too.

   • 2011, Sandra B. McPherson, Farshid Afsarifard, Equivocal Child Abuse, page 150:

     When asked if Hubie touched her pee-pee or if she touched Hubie's pee-pee, she repeatedly replied, “No.”

   • 2014, Elsbeth Renee O'Lea, Trolls, Snakes and Shadow People, page 26:

     She has also said her dad is mean and hurt her pee pee. She ask a lot about if people are going to look at her pee pee (i.e. Doctors, different apts. we go to, that is her first question to me).

Translations

Verb

pee-pee (third-person singular simple present pee-pees, present participle pee-peeing, simple past and past participle pee-peed)

1. (childish, slang) To urinate.

Synonyms

• (standard terms): urinate; see also Thesaurus:urinate
• (euphemistic terms): pee, piddle, tinkle, wee, wee-wee
• (slang terms): whiz
• (coarse slang terms): piss