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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piːn/
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  • Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

Probably from a North Germanic source, compare dialectal Norwegian penn (“peen”), Danish pind (“peg”), German Pinne (“the peen of a hammer”), Old Swedish pæna (“to pound iron with a hammer”).

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Noun

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a ball-peen hammer

peen (plural peens)

  1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
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Verb

peen (third-person singular simple present peens, present participle peening, simple past and past participle peened)

  1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
Derived terms
  • chisel peen
  • cross peen
  • peen over
  • point peen

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Etymology 2

Clipping of penis, with the spelling changed to maintain the original pronunciation.

Noun

peen (plural peens)

  1. (slang) Penis.
    • 2009, Danny Evans, Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts‎, New American Library, published 2009, →ISBN:
      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, published 2010, →ISBN, 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, published 2012, →ISBN, page 49:
      It's so quiet you could hear a peen go soft.
    • 2021 September 2, Paul Simms, “The Prisoner” (2058: from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
      “Guillermo, you will now take Colin Robinson's peen and scrotum and crush it in your hand.” “What?” “Good idea.” “No.” “Yeah.” “He's gonna do it.” “I'm afraid I can't, Master. As much as I would love to, something compels me not to.”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peen.
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Noun

peen

  1. genitive plural of pe

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