pete

pete (plural petes)

1. (slang) Alternative form of peter (“a safe”)
   • 1929, Outlook and Independent, volume 152, page 640:

     He was on his way to Tyrone, where he intended to blow a “pete” in a general merchandise store […]

   • 1933, Goat Laven, Rough Stuff: The Life Story of a Gangster, page 34:

     He told us that at one time he could blow a pete at one shot and never fail.

• Peet, Tepe, teep, tepe

From French péter.

pete

1. (transitive) to break
2. (transitive) to flatter, to fool
3. (intransitive) to burst, explode, break
4. (intransitive) to start (doing something)
5. (intransitive) to fart

   Synonym: pèpèt

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

First attested in 1778. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the proper noun Pete, the diminutive form of the male given name Péter.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛtɛ]
• Hyphenation: pe‧te
• Rhymes: -tɛ

pete (plural peték)

1. (cytology) ovum

• pete in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te/, [ˈpɛt̪ɛ]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te/, [ˈpɛːt̪e]

pete

1. second-person singular present active imperative of petō

pete

1. Alternative form of pety

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.tɛ]
• Hyphenation: pe‧te

pete

1. (transitive) to kick

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

pete

1. inflection of peta (“ghost”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

pete f

1. inflection of pată:
   1. indefinite genitive/dative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative/genitive/dative plural

pete (Cyrillic spelling пете)

1. inflection of peta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

pete (Cyrillic spelling пете)

1. (Kajkavian) second-person plural future of iti

pete

1. inflection of peta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈpete/ [ˈpe.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: pe‧te

pete m (plural petes)

1. (Latin America, slang) blowjob

   Synonym: mamada

2. (Latin America, childish) Clipping of chupete (“pacifier”).
3. (Latin America, slang) noob, unskilled player

pete

1. inflection of petar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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pete (n class, plural pete)

1. ring

• IPA^(key): [ˈpe.te]

pete

1. eye mucus, sleep, gound, rheum

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From pa (“to tell”) +‎ ète (“strategy”).

• IPA^(key): /k͡pè.tē/

pète

1. to scheme, to plot
2. to intend

• ìpète (“shcemes”)