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English

Noun

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.

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t?]
• Hyphenation: pe?te
• Rhymes: -t?

Noun

pete (plural peték)

1. (cytology) ovum

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• pete in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /?pe.te/, [?p?t??]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pe.te/, [?p??t??]

Verb

pete

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pet?

Middle English

Adjective

pete

1. Alternative form of pety

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?.t?]
• Hyphenation: pe?te

Verb

pete

1. (transitive) to kick

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

pete

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

Romanian

Noun

pete f

1. indefinite genitive/dative singular of pat?
2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of pat?
3. indefinite genitive/dative plural of pat?

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pete (Cyrillic spelling ????)

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

Verb

pete (Cyrillic spelling ????)

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

Slovene

Noun

pete

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pete/, [?pe.t?e]

Noun

pete m (plural petes)

1. (Latin America, slang) blowjob

   Synonym: mamada

2. (Latin America, childish) pacifier, short form of chupete
3. (Latin America, slang) noob, unskilled player

Verb

pete

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of petar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of petar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of petar.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

pete (n class, plural pete)

1. ring

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pi?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pit?/, /?pi??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?(?)
• Homophone: pita (non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: pe?ter

Etymology 1

US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-. Compare the use of other men’s names as a slang term for the penis, e.g., dick, willy, John Thomas, etc.

Noun

peter (plural peters)

1. (slang) The penis.
   • 1997: Shelby Scates, Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America [2]

     You smile, act polite, shake their hands, then cut off their peters and put them in your pocket.” “Yes, Mr. President,” answered O'Brien.

   • 1998: Michael Robert Gorman, The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria [3]

     ... and you were there, and they acted like you weren't even born yet?' "I'd say, 'Yes, their memories are as long as their peters.'"

   • 2002: Celia H Miles, Mattie's Girl: An Appalachian Childhood [4]

     “It's to put on their peters when they don't want to make babies,” she said.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

peter (plural peters)

1. (Britain, slang) A safe.

   Synonym: pete

   • 1963, Kenneth Ullyett, Crime out of Hand (page 109)

     It used to be simple to 'crack a peter'. Safe-breaking (blowing or cracking a 'peter') in the past three or four years shows that the expert cracksman knows his job.

Derived terms

• peterman

Etymology 3

1812, US miners’ slang, Unknown. Various speculative etymologies have been suggested. One suggestion is that it comes from peter being an abbreviation of saltpeter, the key ingredient in gunpowder – when a mine was exhausted, it was “petered”. Other derivations are from St. Peter (from sense of “rock”), or French péter (“to fart”).

Verb

peter (third-person singular simple present peters, present participle petering, simple past and past participle petered)

1. (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.
   • 2021, Helen Fisher, Faye, Faraway (page 241)

     My words petered away.

Usage notes

Originally used independently, but today most often in the derived phrase peter out.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

peter (third-person singular simple present peters, present participle petering, simple past and past participle petered)

1. (card games, intransitive) Synonym of blue peter

References

Anagrams

• Peret, Petre, Prete, peert, petre, repet.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch peter, from petrijn, from Latin patr?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pe?ter
• Rhymes: -e?t?r

Noun

peter m (plural peters, feminine meter)

1. A godfather.

   Synonym: peetoom