peen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

Probably from a North Germanic source, compare dialectal Norwegian penn (“peen”), Danish pind (“peg”), German Pinne (“the peen of a hammer”), Old Swedish pæna (“to pound iron with a hammer”).

Alternative forms

• pane, pean, pein, piend

Noun

English Wikipedia has articles on:

Ball-peen hammer and peening

Wikipedia Wikipedia

peen (plural peens)

1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

peen (third-person singular simple present peens, present participle peening, simple past and past participle peened)

1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.

Derived terms

See also

• Ball-peen hammer
• Shot peening
• Peening

Etymology 2

Clipping of penis, with the spelling changed to maintain the original pronunciation.

Noun

peen (plural peens)

1. (slang) Penis.
   • 2009, Danny Evans, Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts‎, New American Library, published 2009, →ISBN:

     With all due respect (and that may be very little), the real truth is that being a dad is sometimes an imposition of pain far worse than any up-the-peen catheter could ever deliver.

   • 2010, Andrea Lavinthal, Jessica Rozler, Your So-Called Life: A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out By Now, Harper, published 2010, →ISBN, page 32:

     Where to touch a man that will drive him wild every time (Hint: It's probably his peen.)

   • 2012, Fanny Merkin, Andrew Shaffer, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: A Parody, Da Capo Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 49:

     It's so quiet you could hear a peen go soft.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peen.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:penis.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• neep, pene, pene-

Basque

Noun

peen

1. genitive plural of pe

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

peen

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Alternative forms

• pee

Etymology

Originally the plural of pee, perhaps from Middle Dutch *pede, with plural peden (with a single attestation), of uncertain origin. Compare schoen and teen, also originally plurals but later singulars. Proposed cognates include English pith and French pied.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peːn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: peen
• Rhymes: -eːn

Noun

peen f (plural penen, diminutive peentje n)

1. (botany) carrot (Daucus carota)

   Synonym: wortel

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References

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *peeni. Cognate with Finnish pieni.

Adjective

peen (genitive peene, partitive peent, comparative peenem, superlative kõige peenem)

1. fine (of small pieces, small size)
2. thin
3. fine (of good quality)
4. fancy

Inflection

Derived terms

Finnish

Noun

peen

1. genitive singular of pee

Ingrian

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpeːn/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpeːn/,
• Rhymes: -eːn
• Hyphenation: peen
• Homophone: peena

Adjective

peen (comparative peenemp)

1. Alternative form of peeni
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 40:

     Peen tulo saatii siint pellost.

     A small income was received from this field.

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 12:

     A et oo peen?

     And aren't you young ?

Declension

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 404
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 74

Spanish

Verb

peen

1. third-person plural present indicative of peer