piner

See also: Piner

English

Etymology 1

From pine (“languish, grieve”) +‎ -er.

Noun

piner (plural piners)

1. (obsolete) A torturer. [10th–17th c.]
2. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease. [from 19th c.]
3. (rare) Someone who is pining for something.

Etymology 2

Apparently from Middle Dutch piner, pijner (Dutch pijnder), from pinen, pijnen (“to labour, toil”).

Noun

piner (plural piners)

1. (Scotland) A labourer, especially a turf cutter. [from 15th c.]

Etymology 3

From pine (“type of tree”) +‎ -er.

Noun

piner (plural piners)

1. (Tasmania) Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade. [from 19th c.]
   • 2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 152:

     Then there was Bunny D—, an Aboriginal piner who had been in the camps with Dad and who was famed for his bush skills.

2. (Southern US) Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander. [from 19th c.]

Danish

Etymology 1

See pine (“torment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːnər/, [ˈpʰiːnɐ]

Noun

piner c

1. indefinite plural of pine

Etymology 2

See pine (“to torment, torture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːnər/, [ˈpʰiːˀnɐ]

Verb

piner

1. present of pine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ne/

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Verb

piner

1. (vulgar) to fuck, to dick

Conjugation

Conjugation of piner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	piner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pinant /pi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		piné /pi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pine /pin/	pines /pin/	pine /pin/	pinons /pi.nɔ̃/	pinez /pi.ne/	pinent /pin/
	imperfect	pinais /pi.nɛ/	pinais /pi.nɛ/	pinait /pi.nɛ/	pinions /pi.njɔ̃/	piniez /pi.nje/	pinaient /pi.nɛ/
	past historic2	pinai /pi.ne/	pinas /pi.na/	pina /pi.na/	pinâmes /pi.nam/	pinâtes /pi.nat/	pinèrent /pi.nɛʁ/
	future	pinerai /pin.ʁe/	pineras /pin.ʁa/	pinera /pin.ʁa/	pinerons /pin.ʁɔ̃/	pinerez /pin.ʁe/	pineront /pin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pinerais /pin.ʁɛ/	pinerais /pin.ʁɛ/	pinerait /pin.ʁɛ/	pinerions /pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	pineriez /pi.nə.ʁje/	pineraient /pin.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	pine /pin/	pines /pin/	pine /pin/	pinions /pi.njɔ̃/	piniez /pi.nje/	pinent /pin/
	imperfect2	pinasse /pi.nas/	pinasses /pi.nas/	pinât /pi.na/	pinassions /pi.na.sjɔ̃/	pinassiez /pi.na.sje/	pinassent /pi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pine /pin/	—	pinons /pi.nɔ̃/	pinez /pi.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

piner m or f

1. indefinite plural of pine

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

piner f

1. indefinite plural of pine