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pete (plural petes)

1. (slang) Alternative form of peter (“a safe”)
   • 1929, Outlook and Independent, volume 152, page 640:

     He was on his way to Tyrone, where he intended to blow a “pete” in a general merchandise store […]

   • 1933, Goat Laven, Rough Stuff: The Life Story of a Gangster, page 34:

     He told us that at one time he could blow a pete at one shot and never fail.

• tepe, Peet, peet, Tepe, teep

pete

1. inflection of petar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From French péter.

• IPA^(key): /pete/

pete

1. (transitive) to break
2. (transitive) to flatter, to fool
3. (intransitive) to burst, explode, break
4. (intransitive) to start (doing something)
5. (intransitive) to fart

   Synonym: pèpèt

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

First attested in 1778. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the proper noun Pete, the diminutive form of the male given name Péter.^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pe‧te
• Rhymes: -tɛ

pete (plural peték)

1. (cytology) ovum

• pete in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te/,

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te/,

pete

1. second-person singular present active imperative of petō

pete

1. Alternative form of pety

Probably borrowed from Spanish patear.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pe‧te

pete

1. (transitive) to kick

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

pete

1. inflection of peta (“ghost”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

pete f

1. inflection of pată:
   1. indefinite genitive/dative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative/genitive/dative plural

pete (Cyrillic spelling пете)

1. inflection of peta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

pete (Cyrillic spelling пете)

1. (Kajkavian) second-person plural future of iti

pete

1. inflection of peta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈpete/
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: pe‧te

Borrowed from Lunfardo chupete (“pacifier”).

pete m (plural petes)

1. (Latin America, slang) blowjob

   Synonym: mamada

Clipping of chupete (“pacifier”).

pete m (plural petes)

1. (Latin America, childish) binky, pacifier

pete m (plural petes)

1. (Latin America, slang) noob, unskilled player

pete

1. inflection of petar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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pete class IX (plural pete class X)

1. ring

• IPA^(key):

pete

1. eye mucus, sleep, gound, rheum

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From pa (“to tell”) +‎ ète (“strategy”).

• IPA^(key): /k͡pè.tē/

pète

1. to scheme, to plot
2. to intend

• ìpète (“shcemes”)