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pain | peen |

As nouns the difference between pain and peen

is that pain is while peen is the (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end or peen can be (slang) penis.

As an adverb pain

is towards, in/to the direction of.

As a verb peen is

to shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.

pain

English

Noun

  • (countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
    • The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
    I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
  • (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
    • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
    The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
  • (countable) An annoying person or thing.
    • Your mother is a right pain .
  • (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
    • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
    Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
    We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
  • Labour; effort; pains.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (an annoying person or thing) pest * See also

    Antonyms

    * pleasure

    Hyponyms

    * agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic pain

    Derived terms

    * pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painy

    Related terms

    * pained * painful * painfully * painless * painlessly * painlessness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
    • The wound pained him.
  • To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
    • It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  • (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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    peen

    English

    Etymology 1

    Etymology uncertain. Possibly from (etyl) panne, pene, (whence Modern French panne "peen"); possibly from a Scandinavian source, compare Old Swedish , dialectal Norwegian penn "peen" or Danish pind "peg". (en)

    Alternative forms

    * pane, pean, pein

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
    • Derived terms
    * ball-peen * chisel peen * cross peen * peen over * point peen

    See also

    * e-peen * * *

    Etymology 2

    From (m) by shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Penis.
  • * 2009 , Danny Evans, Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts , New American Library (2009), ISBN 9780451227119, 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 9780061938382, 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 9780306821998, page 49:
    • It's so quiet you could hear a peen go soft.
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