# peen
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piːn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːn

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

##### Derived terms

* ball-peen hammer
* cross peen hammer
* straight peen hammer

##### Translations
#### Verb

peen (third-person singular simple present peens, present participle peening, simple past and past participle peened)
* To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.

##### Derived terms

* chisel peen
* cross peen
* peen over
* point peen

#### See also

* Ball-peen hammer
* Shot peening
* Peening

### Etymology 2

Clipping of penis, with the spelling changed to maintain the original pronunciation.

#### Noun

peen (plural peens)
* (slang) Penis.
** 2009, Danny Evans, Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts‎, New American Library, published 2009, →ISBN: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, published 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, published 2012, →ISBN, page 49:It's so quiet you could hear a peen go soft.
** 2021 September 2, Paul Simms, “The Prisoner” (2058: from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):“Guillermo, you will now take Colin Robinson's peen and scrotum and crush it in your hand.” “What?” “Good idea.” “No.” “Yeah.” “He's gonna do it.” “I'm afraid I can't, Master. As much as I would love to, something compels me not to.”
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peen.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:penis.

##### Derived terms

* epeen
* hemipeen

### Anagrams

* neep, pene, pene-

## Basque
### Noun

peen
* genitive plural of pe

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* pee

### Etymology

Originally the plural of 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: /peːn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: peen
* Rhymes: -eːn

### Noun

peen f (plural penen, diminutive peentje n)
* (botany) carrot (Daucus carota)
    Synonym: wortel

#### Derived terms

* bospeen
* waspeen
* wilde peen
* winterpeen

### References

* ↑ Henk Glas, "Onkruiden herkennen", 2010, Baarn, Tirion Uitgevers, →ISBN, pp. 125-126.

## Estonian
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

peen (genitive peene, partitive peent, comparative peenem, superlative kõige peenem)
* fine (of small pieces, small size)
* thin
* fine (of good quality)
* fancy

#### Derived terms

* peenendama
* peenestama
* peenike
* peenus

## Finnish
### Noun

peen
* genitive singular of pee

## Ingrian
### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈpeːn/, [ˈpeːn]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈpeːn/, [ˈpe̝ːn]
* Rhymes: -eːn
* Hyphenation: peen
* Homophone: peena

### Adjective

peen (comparative peenemp)
* Alternative form of peeni
** 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 40:Peen tulo saatii siint pellost.A small income was received from this field.
** 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 12:A et oo peen?And aren't you [too] young [for that]?

#### Declension
### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 404
* Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 74

## Spanish
### Verb

peen
* third-person plural present indicative of peer