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Since the introduction of decimal currency in Britain in 1971 the spelling pee has come into use to represent the pronunciation of the initial letter of penny:

May I trouble you for forty-two pee?—Ruth Rendell, 1974

Even the fundamental human need to spend a penny costs at least 20 pee at the mainline railway termini—Times, 1999.

Lack of precedent is the only argument available to those who condemn this pronunciation and insist on the traditional (but partly anachronistic) forms penny and pence.

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verb

1: intr. To urinate. (1825 —) .
M. Mccarthy 'My God,' you yell...can't a man pee in his own house?' (1948).

2: trans.
a: To wet by urinating. (1788 —) .

b: To wet (oneself) by urinating; hence (chiefly metaphorically), to pee oneself laughing. (1946 —) . noun


3: An act of urination. (1880 —) .

4: Urine. (1957 —) .

[From the sound of the first letter of piss.]

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See words rhyming with "pee."

Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - bogstavet p

2.
v. intr. - tisse
n. - tisse, tis

Nederlands (Dutch)
plassen, plas

Français (French)
1.
n. - p (lettre)

2.
v. intr. - faire pipi, pisser
n. - pipi, urine

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Buchstabe P

2.
v. - Pipi machen
n. - Pipi

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κάτουρο, ούρα, κατούρημα, πιπί
v. - κατουράω, ουρώ, κάνω πιπί

Italiano (Italian)
orinare, orina

Português (Portuguese)
n. - urina (f)
v. - urinar (coloq.)

Русский (Russian)
мочиться, моча

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - letra p

2.
v. intr. - orinar, mear
n. - orina, meada, pipí

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kiss
v. - kissa

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 小便, 尿

2. 撒尿, P字

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 小便, 尿

2.
v. intr. - 撒尿
n. - P字

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - (알파벳의) P, p

2.
v. intr. - 소변보다
n. - 소변 보는 행위, 소변

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 小便
v. - 小便する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بول, تبول (فعل) يتبول, يبول‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮האות P‬
v. intr. - ‮עשה פיפי, השתין‬
n. - ‮פיפי, שתן, השתנה‬

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