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peen | pern |

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, 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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  • Synonyms
    *See also . English clippings

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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

    (en noun)
  • 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 , page 72:
  • * 1851 , Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 , page 38:
  • Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern .
  • * 1894 , The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education , volume 3, page 234:
  • 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.
    Derived terms
    * perne v.(?) (Yeats) * perning (Yeats)

    Etymology 2

    19th century, after the taxonomical name Pernis (Cuvier 1816).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus .
  • Etymology 3

    See pernancy.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take profit of; to make profitable.
  • (Sylvester)

    References

    (Webster 1913)