Peter meaning
To diminish slowly and come to an end. Often used with out .
Their enthusiasm soon petered out.
verb
The penis.
noun
The chief of the 12 Apostles. He is traditionally regarded as the first bishop of Rome and author of two epistles in the New Testament.
To become gradually smaller, weaker, etc. and then cease or disappear.
verb
The penis.
noun
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A masculine name: dim. Pete: equiv. L. Petrus, Fr. Pierre, It. Pietro, Sp. Pedro, Russ. Pyotr.
noun
1672-1725; czar of Russia (1682-1725)
proper name
1923-70; king of Yugoslavia (1934-45): son of Alexander I.
proper name
1728-62; czar of Russia (1762): assassinated; succeeded by his wife, Catherine II.
proper name
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(only used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.
verb
A male given name.
pronoun
(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
pronoun
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rob Peter to pay Paul
- To pay a debt, obligation, etc. by creating or leaving unpaid another.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of peter
- From the name Peter
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 1812, US miners' slang, Unknown. Various speculative etymologies have been suggested. One suggestion is that it comes from peter being an abbreviation of saltpeter, the key ingredient in gunpowder - when a mine was exhausted, it was “petered". Other derivations are from St. Peter (from sense of “rock"), or French péter (“to fart").
From Wiktionary
- From Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Î ÎÏ„Ïος (Petros), from Ï€ÎÏ„Ïος (petros, “stone, rock"), related to Ï€ÎÏ„Ïα (petra)
From Wiktionary
- US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-.
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