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What is the name of peeing?
Urination is the release of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. It is the urinary system’s form of excretion. It is also known medically as micturition, voiding, uresis, or, rarely, emiction, and known colloquially by various names including peeing, weeing, and pissing.
What is the technical name for peeing?
urination, also called Micturition, the process of excreting urine from the urinary bladder.
What is the British word for pee?
Moreover, Brits have an even greater number of words to describe the act of urinating, including the following: having a slash; breaking the seal; spending a penny; having a wee; draining the lizard; having a piddle; having a tinkle; pointing the pink pistol at the porcelain firing range; and watering the flowers.
How do you say pee in British?
Additional synonyms
- urinate,
- wee (informal),
- pee (slang),
- tinkle (British, informal),
- piddle (informal),
- spend a penny (British, informal),
- pass water,
- wee-wee (informal),
Do Americans say poop?
Poop was used in British English long before poo was. The early noun uses of poop in the ‘solid’ sense are American, with a single 19th century example, then more from the 1920s. But poop catches on in Britain in the 1940s. So poop is older than poo in British English, and both were may have been American first.
Why do people say pee eww?
1) It’s a shortened term for puteo, which is Latin for “to stink, be redolent, or smell bad.” I actually called a professor of Latin at the University of Florida to verify this one. 2) It’s actually spelled “piu,” but is often pronounced as “pee-yew”. It’s root is the Indo-European word “pu,” meaning to rot or decay.
How do you say pee in Scottish?
Pish. Translation: Urine. However, in Glasgow and other parts of Scotland, it’s a common word for something that evokes a negative vibe.
Why do we call poo poo?
The word poop comes from the Middle English word poupen or popen, which used to be the root of the word we now call a fart.