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What is the difference between pee and peer?

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As nouns the difference between pee and peer

is that pee is (euphemistic|often|childish) urine or pee can be or pee can be (british|colloquial) pence; penny (a quantity of money) or pee can be (nautical) the bill of an anchor while peer is somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else) or peer can be someone who pees, someone who urinates.

As verbs the difference between pee and peer

is that pee is (intransitive|colloquial|often|childish) to urinate while peer is to look with difficulty, or as if searching for something or peer can be to make equal in rank.

pee

English

Etymology 1

Spelling of the initial letter of (piss). Compare (eff).

Noun

(-)
  • (euphemistic, often, childish) urine
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Coordinate terms
    * poo

    Verb

  • (intransitive, colloquial, often, childish) To urinate.
  • (colloquial) To drizzle.
  • It's peeing with rain.
    Synonyms
    * (standard terms) make water, pass water, urinate, micturate * (euphemistic terms) wee, wee-wee * (vulgar slang terms) piss * See also
    Coordinate terms
    * poo

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mind your pees and cues.
    See also
    *
    Derived terms
    * peejays

    Etymology 3

    Spelling of the initial letter of (pence).

    Noun

    (pee)
  • (British, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money)
  • I bought these carrots for fifty pee .
    I can't afford that — I'm one pee short.
    Synonyms
    * (plural) p, pence * (singular) p, penny

    Etymology 4

    See peak.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) The bill of an anchor.
  • Etymology 5

    Alternative forms

    * pea

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sliding weight on a steelyard.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    peer

    English

    (wikipedia peer)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
  • * Coleridge
  • as if through a dungeon grate he peered
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
  • He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
  • He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
  • to come in sight; to appear.
  • * Shakespeare
  • So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • See how his gorget peers above his gown!

    Etymology 2

    From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
  • * Dryden
  • In song he never had his peer .
  • * Isaac Taylor
  • Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
  • # Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
  • A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
  • a peer of the realm
  • * Milton
  • a noble peer of mickle trust and power
  • A comrade; a companion; an associate.
  • * Spenser
  • He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make equal in rank.
  • (Heylin)
  • (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
  • Derived terms
    * peer-to-peer

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
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  • Anagrams

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