different between pee vs tinkle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: P, p, pea

Etymology 1

The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.

Noun

pee (countable and uncountable, plural pees)

1. (euphemistic, often childish) Urine.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:urine

Coordinate terms

• poo

Derived terms

• white pee

Translations

Verb

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

1. (euphemistic, intransitive, colloquial, often childish) To urinate.

2. (mildly vulgar, intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:urinate

Coordinate terms

• poo

Derived terms

• pee off

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

pee (plural pees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P.
   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

Derived terms

• mind one's pees and cues
• peejays

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 3

Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.

Noun

pee (plural pee)

1. (Britain, Ireland, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money)

Usage notes

• Only used to refer to decimal pence (the symbol for the old penny having been abbreviated d).

Synonyms

• (plural): p, pence
• (singular): p, penny

Etymology 4

See peak.

Noun

pee (plural pees)

1. (nautical) The bill of an anchor.

Etymology 5

Alternative forms

• pea

Noun

pee (plural pees)

1. The sliding weight on a steelyard.

Anagrams

• Epe, eep

Estonian

Noun

pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?/, [?pe??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: pee

Etymology 1

Probably from the Swedish letter name, itself ultimately from Latin p?.

Noun

pee

1. pee (The name of the Latin-script letter P.)

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) kirjain; aa, bee, see, dee, ee, äf/äffä, gee, hoo, ii, jii, koo, äl/ällä, äm/ämmä, än/ännä, oo, pee, kuu, är/ärrä, äs/ässä, tee, uu, vee, kaksoisvee/tuplavee, äks/äksä, yy, tset/tseta, ruotsalainen oo, ää, öö ^{(Category: fi:Latin letter names)}

Etymology 2

From the first letter of paska (“shit”).

Noun

pee

1. (uncountable, euphemistic) shit.

Etymology 3

From the first letter of perse (“arse”).

Noun

pee

1. (uncountable, euphemistic) arse

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pe

Etymology

From Latin pedem, accusative of p?s (“foot”), from Proto-Indo-European *p?ds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.e/

Noun

pee m (plural pees)

1. foot

   • E?ta e como ?anta maria n? q?s q? entra??e na ?a eigreia do poe un mancebo q? dera a??a madre un couce ? el pois uiu q? n? podia en?r cortoo pee ? de pois ?ãou ?anta maria.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary didn't want that a young man, who had kicked his mother, entered her church in Puy. And he, seeing that he couldn't enter, cut his foot and later Holy Mary healed it.

Descendants

• Galician: pé
• Portuguese: pé

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/

Pronoun

pee

1. you, ye (second person plural)

References

• http://tupi.fflch.usp.br/

Spanish

Verb

pee

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of peer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of peer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of peer.

Võro

Noun

pee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English pye.

Noun

pee

1. a pie

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink +? -le (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??k?l/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Verb

tinkle (third-person singular simple present tinkles, present participle tinkling, simple past and past participle tinkled)

1. (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
   • 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture

     The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.

2. (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
3. (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.

4. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

   • And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.

5. (intransitive, informal) To urinate.

Synonyms

• (urinate): See Thesaurus:urinate

Derived terms

• atinkle
• tinkle-down
• tinkle the ivories

Translations

Noun

tinkle (plural tinkles)

1. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
2. (Britain, informal) A telephone call.

   Synonyms: call, ring

3. (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.

Translations