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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.

• tepe, Peet, peet, Tepe, teep

pete

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

From French péter.

• IPA^(key): /pete/

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

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pete	peték
accusative	petét	petéket
dative	petének	petéknek
instrumental	petével	petékkel
causal-final	petéért	petékért
translative	petévé	petékké
terminative	petéig	petékig
essive-formal	peteként	petékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	petében	petékben
superessive	petén	petéken
adessive	peténél	petéknél
illative	petébe	petékbe
sublative	petére	petékre
allative	petéhez	petékhez
elative	petéből	petékből
delative	petéről	petékről
ablative	petétől	petéktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	petéé	petéké
non-attributive possessive - plural	petééi	petékéi

Possessive forms of pete
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	petém	petéim
2nd person sing.	petéd	petéid
3rd person sing.	petéje	petéi
1st person plural	peténk	petéink
2nd person plural	petétek	petéitek
3rd person plural	petéjük	petéik

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

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

pete

1. second-person singular present active imperative of petō

pete

1. Alternative form of pety

Probably borrowed from Spanish patear.

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

pete

1. (transitive) to kick

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], 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

Borrowed from Lunfardo chupete (“pacifier”).

pete m (plural petes)

1. (Latin America, slang) blowjob

   Synonym: mamada

Clipping of chupete (“pacifier”).

pete m (plural petes)

1. (Latin America, childish) binky, pacifier

pete m (plural petes)

1. (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”)