Teen vs Peen - What's the difference?
teen | peen |
(label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
*, III.5:
*:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
*:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
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*:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
*1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
*:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
*1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
*:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
*1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
*:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
(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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As nouns the difference between teen and peen
is that teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old while peen is the (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.As verbs the difference between teen and peen
is that teen is to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure while peen is to shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.teen
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See (token).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.Etymology 4
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*Anagrams
* * ----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.