English Explanatory Dictionary

piss

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Urine.
  2. The act of urinating.
  3. Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
  4. An intensifier.
verb
  1. To urinate.
  2. To discharge as or with the urine.
  3. To achieve easily.
  4. To rain heavily.
intj
  1. Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.

Pronunciation

/pɪs/ en-uk-piss.ogg

Word forms

piss pisses pissing 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.

Synonyms

urinate

Derived words

bepiss boil someone's piss cat piss couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery couldn't piss a hole in the snow cowpiss cow piss drinker don't piss in the wind and tell me it's raining don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining frighten the piss out of full of piss and vinegar gin's piss give two squirts of piss go piss girl hold one's piss holy piss horse piss hot piss I wouldn't piss on someone if they were on fire kangaroo piss like a cow pissing on a flat rock midpiss not have a pot to piss in not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of on the piss outpiss piece of piss pissabed piss about piss-all piss all piss all over piss and moan piss and vinegar piss and wind pissant piss-ant piss ant pissaphone piss around piss-artist piss artist pissass piss away pissbaby pissbag piss be upon him piss bottle pissboy pissbrain pissbreath piss clam pisscutter pissdale piss down piss-easy pissed pissed off piss-elegance piss-elegant
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