pee n.1
1. urine; also attrib.
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 660: While the ladies, bless the pretty dears, / Must save their pee for nitre. | ||
Evil Eye 51: The cailleach gave an unpleasant laugh and said, ‘The milk has gone along with the pee’ . | ||
Lars Porsena: The Future of Swearing 42: Pa’s out and ma’s out, let’s talk dirt! / Pee-poh-belly-bottom-drawers. | ||
(ref. to late 19C) Amer. Madam (1981) 219: The place stank of pee pots. | ||
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 81: Sound in wind and limb except for [...] dermatitis, phlebitis and intermittent retention of the pee. | ||
Augie March (1996) 448: Smelling pee in the hall. | ||
(con. 1920s) South of Heaven (1994) 18: You boys getting pretty hard up drinking pee. | ||
‘Ma’s Out’ in | (1979) 137: Ma’s out, Pa’s out, / Let’s talk dirt: / Pee, po, belly, bottom, / Bum, fart, drawers.||
Sky Ray Lolly 27: A policeman, manoeuvring, got him / by the intact elbow of his pee-stained mac. | ||
Breakfast on Pluto 32: Sweat? Stale pee? I really do not think so! The very embodiment of hygiene and good manners! | ||
Night Gardener 106: You can buy clean pee. | ||
Lush Life 172: He [...] smelled pee-splash bouncing off the wall . | ||
Chicago Trib. 18 Aug. TAB-25/1: Not to mention phrases like ‘L-7 weenie’ and ‘pee-drinking crap-face’. |
2. (also P) an act of urination.
Gas-House McGinty 45: He’d be all right if he wasn’t like an old woman, Mueller said. [...] Sure he sits down to take a pea [sic], Billy whispered. | ||
Aus. Vulgarisms [t/s] 11: P card: An institution among certain service car drivers. Cards marked with P are handed to travellers on a long journey and these are handed to the driver when a stop is urgently required, thereby saving embarrassment. | ||
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 309: I felt like that little dog in the story who ran out of Lombard Street to do his morning pee against the Bank of England and found it gone. | ||
(con. 1940s) Gun in My Hand 158: The appropriate action every Kiwi had anticipated ever since landing in Italy. A pee in the Po. | ||
Owning Up (1974) 225: I’d been for a pee. | ||
1985 (1980) 155: If it’s a pee you want you’ll have to wait till we get there. | ||
Puberty Blues 92: I went for my early morning pee. | ||
Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 33: Oh! I must have a pee. | ||
Share House Blues 39: ‘Don’t forget to have a good pee before we go’. | ||
Trainspotting 47: He had needed a pee for the last half-hour. | ||
Guardian G2 15 Feb. 17: He came up with the initial concept [...] while ‘having a pee’. | ||
Life 359: I was taking a pee with Bobby Keys in Innsbruck, just after a show. | ||
February’s Son 133: He needed a pee. Badly. | ||
May God Forgive 90: ‘I’m off for a pee’. |
3. see piss n. (3a)
In compounds
(Aus. prison) an erection on waking up in the morning.
Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Pee hard. The erection males sometimes have on awakening. |
see pisspot n.
In phrases
to attack violently.
Semi-Tough 127: Then kick the pee out of somebody else on Sunday. | ||
Fireworks (1988) 188: I threatened to beat the pee out of her. | ‘Sunrise at Midnight’ in
of men, suffering an inability to urinate when one or more other people are in the immediate vicinity.
Urban Dict. 2 July 🌐 The inability to urinate in public, for example at a crowded row of urinals. | ||
‘The Name Between the Talons’ in ThugLit Oct. [ebook] “I hope you don’t get pee-shy. We’ve got a guy waiting to transfer to county in the other cell‘. |
to terrify.
Executioner (1973) 91: Scared the pee out of bigshot Varone. |