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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of Pieter + man. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpi.tərˌmɑn/
- Hyphenation: pie‧ter‧man
Noun
pieterman m (plural pietermannen, diminutive pietermannetje n)
- weever, any individual fish or species of the family Trachinidae
- Synonym: peterman
- certain monetary units
- (Netherlands, slang) euro
- (historical, Netherlands, slang) guilder
- (historical, chiefly diminutive) a certain coin used in the Holy Roman Empire, issued from Trier
- 1786, Johannes Hubner, Algemeen konstwoorden-boek der weetenschappen, vol. 2 of Den Staats- en Kouranten-tolk, tr. from German by Arn. Henr. Westerhovius, ed. by J. de Vries, publ. by Martinus de Bruyn (2nd print), page 339.
- Synonym: peterman
- (Belgium, historical) beer from Louvain
- Synonym: peterman
- (slang) dick, peen
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