Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To urinate.
- v. To urinate on or in.
- v. To discharge (blood, for example) in the urine.
- n. Urine.
- n. The act or an instance of urinating.
- piss off To make or become angry.
- piss off Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
- idiom. take the piss out of Chiefly British To tease or mock (someone).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To discharge the fluid secreted by the kidneys and detained in the urinary bladder; urinate.
- To eject as urine.
- n. Urine.
Wiktionary
- n. Urine.
- n. Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
- v. To urinate.
- v. To discharge as or with the urine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To discharge urine, to urinate; -- usually considered vulgar.
- n. Urine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. liquid excretory product
- n. informal terms for urination
- v. eliminate urine
Etymologies
- Middle English pissen, from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pissiāre, of imitative origin.
Examples
“Something seemed wrong about saying the word piss in a chapel.”
“As a consequence my piss is almost orange in colour at the end of most shifts at the moment!”
“Taking the piss is the hardest thing in the world to explain.”
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“But it does seem that gopher piss is a hallucinogenic.”
“On the matter of what you call the piss poor education system the real problems are the segregation into public and private, the remaining selection within the public sector, including outright selective schools, faith schools, single sex schools and other disruptions.”
“To glorify the thrashing, blood, death process is truely in piss poor taste and I will not buy anything packaged with that type of graphic print/picture.”
“I think that Pezcore was great because Pezcore was based in piss and vinegar, and the confusion of all those things, you know?”
“I see you are in a good field for a republican piss is something your side seems to enjoy either wearing or scaring the piss.”
“Warm piss is running down the leg of Barbara Boxer right now.”
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“I've found hunting dogs that were emaciated, in piss poor shape as well throughout my years hunting my home state.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piss’.
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Friends, of, today, are, not, only, interested, molar, Whistles, armpit, stinks, spotted and 26 more...
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George Carlin's 7 Dirty Words
George Carlin's list of Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.
"Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that'll infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country...tits, motherfucker, cocksucker, cunt, fuck, piss, shit
bilby "The police have evidence that (the Exford is) responsible for producing a lot of consumption on the streets in the CBD late at night. It was a beacon for people wanting to get pissed in the streets all night long."
- unnamed source, quoted in Jill Stark & Melissa Fyfe, Blitz on all-night bottle shops in bid to curb alcohol-fuelled violence, theage.com.au, 18 Oct 2009. Oct 18, 2009
bilby "He will piss when he can't whistle: he will be hanged. He shall not piss my money against the wall: he shall not have my money to spend in liquor.
He who once a good name gets,
May piss-a-bed, and say he sweats."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'. Sep 18, 2008
johnmperry cf micturition Jul 22, 2008