piss
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piss
- /pɪs/
Rhymes with -ɪs
Where it comes from
From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”). Displaced Old English miċġe (“urine”) and mīgan (“to urinate”).
noun pisses
- Urine. This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.
- The act of urinating. I'm desperate for a piss!
- Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality. Let's dash over to Fisher's for a fifth of that one-fifty-one West Indian. We can't drink this piss, it's degrading.
- An intensifier. piss-poor
verb pisses · pissing · pissed
- To urinate. When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
- To discharge as or with the urine. If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.
- To achieve easily. "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."
- To rain heavily. She spent that night under her sheet of polythene and 'somehow managed to get only half wet', waking up the next morning to find that 'it had absolutely pissed down through the night'.
Similar: urinate
interjection
- Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction. At times he gets irritable, especially if he believes that something has been misplaced or lost: "Piss oh piss! -- where in the hell does everything go around here!"
