piss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: pisses
form: pissing
form: pissed
form: pissed
Etymology: 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 micge.
Senses: examples: text: When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
text: O Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think on ’t, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i’ the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 14:10:
text: Along by the edge of the mole he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock and from under a cocked hindleg pissed against it. He trotted forward and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 3:
text: Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. / Jen: Oh. Oh! / Roy: Yeah... / Jen: Which sink? / Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. / Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.
ref: 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
glosses: To urinate.
examples: text: Lately I've been pissing blood.
text: If any piss filthy matter, or little scales, or withal the urine have a strong smell, it shews ulceration of the bladder.
ref: 1824, Alexander Burnett, The Medical Adviser, →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: To discharge as or with the urine.
examples: text: "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."
ref: 2018, Carl Fogarty, The World According to Foggy, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: To achieve easily.
examples: text: 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'.
ref: 1989, Christine Dann, Pip Lynch, Wilderness Women: Stories of New Zealand Women at Home in the Wilderness:
text: Let's face it, they're there for a good stroll on a Sunday afternoon when it's pissing outside.
ref: 2002, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: Normally she would have left the car at home and walked to the hotel but it was pissing rain and she didn't want to meet Jeff looking like a drowned rat.
ref: 2013, Patricia Scanlan, With All My Love: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: To rain heavily.
Synonyms: urinate