piss
//pɪs//
informalForms
- Plural
- pisses
- present (v1)
- piss
- past (v2)
- pissed
- past participle (v3)
- pissed
- present participle
- pissing
- 3rd person singular
- pisses
Definitions
1.Urine.(vulgar)
- This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.
- 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.
2.The act of urinating.(vulgar)
- 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.
3.Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.(vulgar)
- ‘Want some advice?’ I said. ‘Stay off the piss. You won't want to be handling this kind of thing with a hangover.’
- 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.
4.An intensifier.(vulgar)
- “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 ..
1.To urinate.(vulgar)
- When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
- 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.
2.To discharge as or with the urine.(vulgar)
- 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.
3.To achieve easily.(slang)
- "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."
4.To rain heavily.(slang)
- 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.
- 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'.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4811
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
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 miċġe (“urine”) and mīgan (“to urinate”).