Peen vs Pern - What's the difference?
peen | pern |
(slang) Penis.
* 2009 , Danny Evans, Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts , New American Library (2009), ISBN 9780451227119,
* 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,
* 2012 , Fanny Merkin & Andrew Shaffer, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: A Parody , Da Capo Press (2012), ISBN 9780306821998,
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part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle
* 1813 February 4, "Specification of the Patent granted to William Broughton for a Method of making a peculiar Species of Canvas", in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture ,
* 1851 , Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 ,
* 1894 , The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education , volume 3,
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between peen and pern
is that peen is the (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end or peen can be (slang) penis while pern is part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle or pern can be a honey buzzard; pernis apivorus .As verbs the difference between peen and pern
is that peen is to shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen while pern is to take profit of; to make profitable.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, peinDerived terms
* ball-peen * chisel peen * cross peen * peen over * point peenSee also
* e-peen * * *Etymology 2
From (m) by shortening.Noun
(en noun)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.
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- Where to touch a man that will drive him wild every time (Hint: It's probably his peen .)
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- It's so quiet you could hear a peen go soft.
Synonyms
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* ----pern
English
Etymology 1
Presumably from a verb .Charles Moorman, ''The Works of the Gawain-Poet (1977), ISBN 978-1-60473-409-6,page 324. See also pirl.
Noun
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- Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern .
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- In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern , and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.