different between peter vs unregister

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

English

Etymology

un- +? register

Verb

unregister (third-person singular simple present unregisters, present participle unregistering, simple past and past participle unregistered)

1. (transitive) To undo the process of registration for.
   • 1999, John Papa, C. Caison, Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP (page 252)

     To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry, add the /u switch to the command […]

2. (intransitive) To undo a registration process.
   • 2000, Peter Weverka, Michael Taylor, ICQ 2000 for dummies (page 34)

     Before you uninstall the software and rid yourself of ICQ forever, take the time to go online and unregister yourself (see the previous sections in this chapter). By unregistering, you remove your name from the ICQ computers.

Synonyms

• deregister, unsubscribe

Translations

Anagrams

• grunerites, grünerites