different between peen vs hammerhead

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

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

peen (plural peens)

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

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.

Noun

peen (plural peens)

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

     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 (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 (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

• epeen

Anagrams

• neep, pene, pene-

Basque

Noun

peen

1. genitive plural of pe

Dutch

Alternative forms

• pee

Etymology

Originally the plural of Dutch 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): /pe?n/
• Hyphenation: peen
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

peen f (plural penen, diminutive peentje n)

1. (botany) carrot (Daucus carota)

   Synonym: wortel

Derived terms

References

Estonian

Etymology

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

Adjective

peen (genitive peene, partitive peent)

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

Adjective

peen (genitive peenen, partitive peentä)

1. Soikkola spelling of peeni

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 404
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: ??????? ?? ????????? ??????^[1], ?ISBN, page 74

Spanish

Verb

peen

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of peer.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of peer.

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

hammer +? head

Pronunciation

Noun

hammerhead (plural hammerheads)

1. The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
2. (zoology) Any of various sharks of the genera Sphyrna or Zygaena having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape.
3. (zoology) A fresh-water fish; the hogsucker, Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
4. (zoology) An African fruit bat, the hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, so called from its large blunt nozzle.
5. (slang) A stupid person, a dunce.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:

     [The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.

6. A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
7. (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.

Synonyms

• (shark): hammerhead shark, hammer fish, balance fish

Translations