piss
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: pisses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pisses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pissing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pissed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pissed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Urine.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.
[among the list of elixir ingredients][…]Of piss and egg-shells
Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation.
Smells of men. Spat-on sawdust, sweetish warmish cigarettesmoke, reek of plug, spilt beer, men’s beery piss, the stale of ferment.
There in a puddle of piss sat Princess Fatima, her dress up over her knees, vomit dripping onto her bodice
gloss: The act of urinating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
mildly
vulgar
examples: I'm desperate for a piss!
But the urinal was safe, no unshielded pissing trough, but a nice, modest urinal, with a wall on each side of you so you could have your privacy. … That was one of the best pisses of my life.
gloss: Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
mildly
uncountable
vulgar
examples: 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.
‘Want some advice?’ I said. ‘Stay off the piss. You won't want to be handling this kind of thing with a hangover.’
gloss: An intensifier.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
mildly
uncountable
vulgar
examples: piss-poor
Irene went down to her studio and brought the painting upstairs. She leaned it against a wall and then she and Mary contemplated it from across the room. 'It really is piss-ugly,' said Mary with a note of grudging affection in her voice.
“You are piss funny, Caolan O'Donnell, you really are.”
Just watched Black Adder Goes Forth. Can I just say Ben Elton is my bloody hero for ever. If it wasn't for him I would still think voting Tory was OK. And he is piss funny ...
gloss: To urinate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
mildly
vulgar
examples: When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
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?
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To discharge as or with the urine.
pos: verb
tags: mildly
transitive
vulgar
examples: If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.
If any piss filthy matter, or little scales, or withal the urine have a strong smell, it shews ulceration of the bladder.
gloss: To achieve easily.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
mildly
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."
gloss: To rain heavily.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: 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'.
Let's face it, they're there for a good stroll on a Sunday afternoon when it's pissing outside.
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.
gloss: Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.
pos: intj
tags: mildly
vulgar
examples: 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!"
There was nothing left of the sundae except a puddle of white foam muddied by chocolate syrup, with a cherry floating on top. "Oh, piss," she muttered, "the ice cream's melted."
Fowler was unresponsive when emergency services arrived and was declared dead at the scene. Fowler worked for the mayor's office for the past three years and twice ran unsuccessfully for city council. Police are asking anyone who saw a green Toyota or Honda SUV near the scene of the accident to contact them.' 'Piss!' Melchiori said again. 'He was a friend of mine.'
Well, piss! I can't leave here now. Billy, call into the room and ask one of the girls to ask the Doc if he can guess how much longer it will be.
Synonyms: urinate
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