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单词 pee em
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pee emn.adv.

Brit. /ˌpiː ˈɛm/, U.S. /ˌpi ˈɛm/
Forms: 1900s– pee em, 1900s– pee emm, 1900s– pee hem, 1900s– pe em, 1900s– peeyem.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English pee, em.
Etymology: < pee, the name of the letter P n. + em, the name of the letter M n., after p.m. adv. and n.1. Compare also ack emma n. and adv.
colloquial (originally British).
A. n.
The period after midday; afternoon or evening.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > afternoon > [noun]
evenOE
overnoonOE
midovernoona1325
afternoonc1330
mid-afternoona1400
undern1470
after-dinner1576
postmeridian1583
evening1587
post meridiem1647
none1656
noon1667
postnoon1686
aft1772
p.m.1776
after1906
pip emma1912
arvo1933
pee em1933
afty1966
1933 Brevities (N.Y.) 2 Nov. 11/1 Despite all this prosperity talk being booted about these ayems and pe ems, a good percentage of the Big Board listings are still below the twenty-five buck mark.
1985 P. Ferguson Family Myths & Legends ii. 18 Who's with your mother this pee em?
1990 S. Morgan Homeboy xliv. 266 These Mainline ayems and peeyems got me doubleparked in the Twilight Zone.
2002 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 9 Nov. d7 Let's meet in the pee em.
B. adv.
Post meridiem; after midday.
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1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 86 Call received 5.15 pee hem.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway i. 6 He had the whole shooting match to take care of from nine peeyem until nine ayem.
1997 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Feb. 14 At one minute past nine pee-em..you can bet your zapper there'll be a naked couple louping around.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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