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  • They'll take your head off if you make the smallest error regarding their physical characteristics or temperament—for example, if you call shar peis ugly because of all those wrinkles, or friendly, just because you want viewers to like you, when in fact they're quite reserved.

    The Dog Show's TV Ace Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

  • Unwieldy dogs and minuscule dogs and long-haired and sleek dogs, snoring Saint Bernards, asthmatic pugs, unfolding shar-peis, and depressed-looking basset hounds - each with devoted fans.

    Excerpt: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer 2009

  • August 21, 2009 at 8:57 am trow eh peis dis wae, pleaz!

    *sigh* Iz bored - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Linda and Donna even dress the part, donning matching chi-peis or complimentary kimonos Donna's was given to her by Linda as a Christmas gift and becoming Sista Red Dawn and Sista Golden Dawn...

    Archive 2008-12-28 2009

  • Ai em glad hii had eh bit awf peis at teh edn bak hoyml

    it’s ok, answer the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Linda and Donna even dress the part, donning matching chi-peis or complimentary kimonos Donna's was given to her by Linda as a Christmas gift and becoming Sista Red Dawn and Sista Golden Dawn...

    The Happiest Christmas 2008

  • "Do I hear -" "But then I thought no, no, no, this is a bookstore, it needs to be a scene from a famous book, and I thought of Lad: A Dog, but nobody reads Lad: A Dog anymore, everybody's into Shar-peis -" "Yes," said Lucy.

    Bailey White: 'What Would They Say in Birmingham?' 2006

  • But after Duke's death, when relations deteriorated, Lafferty flew Rodeo to New Jersey and-according to Mr. Dowd-penned the animal up with the Akitas, who had previously "demonstrated a willingness to kill shar-peis."

    Bark House: Endless Dogsuit Done 2004

  • Thir widderit (withered) peis and nuttis, or thay be bord,

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • It was after an afternoon yomping on the Heath with my shark-toothed Staffie that I first discovered it, for there we came upon a boisterous convention of border terriers, shar-peis and boxers waiting with their owners to enter the coin-operated dog shower.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

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  • In environmental science: programmatic environmental impact statement

    March 31, 2009

  • n!

    March 31, 2009

  • n?

    March 31, 2009

  • I can't decide where to insert "n" in the word "peis".

    March 31, 2009

  • Insertion dilemma. Tsk.

    March 31, 2009

  • Norwegian for hearth

    March 31, 2009

  • How about pneis, a power drill's state of unbelief in God.

    March 31, 2009

  • I love WeirdNet's take on this as a plural proper noun.

    March 31, 2009

  • No, I think it should be peisn, to feed someone poisoned peas.

    March 31, 2009

  • John, perhaps I.M. Pei's name has become a byword for modernist architect, as in: "Our architecure program has produced quite a few Peis and a couple of Mieses, too." A more likely plural, however, would be if Pei is understood metonymically: "While everyone else was getting excited about deconstructivist architecture, she devoted herself to the buildings of late modernism and traveled the world photographing Peis and Safdies." Well, it's possible. I guess all I am saying is, give Peis a chance.

    March 31, 2009

  • Wait! According to WeirdNet definition #2, practically all of us are Peis!

    March 31, 2009

  • Thank you, rolig, for brightening my a.m.

    March 31, 2009