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The inability to urinate under pressure.

Also known as shy bladder and the medically diagnosable social anxiety disorder paruresis. Varies widely in severity but is thought to affect 7% of the population.

Often associated with familiar persons waiting or being within hearing distance or privacy concerns, although severe paruretics may never pee in public.
I'm late for class cause I had to pee.
pee shy by Hesitant Wang August 31, 2004
Pee shy a.k.a pee anxiety --
You have to pee like a champ....unfortunately, when you get to that public urinal it is to quiet. You fear your peeing sounds will be to loud (echoing throughout the numerous other stalls) so you are unable to release your urine.

A fear that another person is listening to you urinate, your muscles tighten up, no matter how hard you try you cannot urinate.
"Turn on the water so you cant listen to me pee"
pee shy by Brianna August 27, 2004
Pee shy happens when I stand at the urinal and 25 guys are behind me.
Mindy's mother asked her why she always pee so much after school. Mindy answered that she can't go in school anymore. She is now pee shy. Her girlfriend Wendy told her that she has been hanging out at her house so much that she caught her dad's genetic disease called stage fright.
pee shy by filup October 26, 2006
Unable to urinate for any psychological or physiological reason.
"Dude, you were in there for a long time!"
"Yeah, it gets pee shy after I drink this much beer. It took 5 minutes just to get it running, then I had to sphincter out the tail."
pee shy by enkephalin07 February 29, 2016

Pee Shyness 

Pee shyness is when someone cannot pee with others in the immediate area. This is common in women, who commonly go to the bathroom in herds. Sometimes this is relieved by everyone in the immediate vicinity turning their backs to the person on the "throne", running water, or making other distracting noises.
Char asked all the girls in the bathroom to make noise because she had pee shyness.