Po vs Pee - What's the difference?
po | pee |
(UK, Australia, NZ, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.
* 1988 , (Richard Hoggart), A Local Habitation, 1918-40 , Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3305-8,
* 1989 , (Leonard Woolf), Frederic Spotts (editor), Letters of Leonard Woolf ,
(euphemistic, often, childish) urine
(intransitive, colloquial, often, childish) To urinate.
(colloquial) To drizzle.
(British, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money)
As nouns the difference between po and pee
is that po is a peacock while pee is urine.As a proper noun Po
is italy's longest river, which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.As an initialism PO
is post office.As a verb pee is
to urinate.po
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)page 67,
- ‘Pos ’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.
page 86,
- There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.
Anagrams
* English two-letter words ----pee
English
Etymology 1
Spelling of the initial letter of (piss). Compare (eff).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* pooVerb
- It's peeing with rain.
Synonyms
* (standard terms) make water, pass water, urinate, micturate * (euphemistic terms) wee, wee-wee * (vulgar slang terms) piss * See alsoCoordinate terms
* pooEtymology 2
See also
*Derived terms
* peejaysEtymology 3
Spelling of the initial letter of (pence).Noun
(pee)- I bought these carrots for fifty pee .
- I can't afford that — I'm one pee short.
