piss

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  1. intransitive verb To urinate.
  2. transitive verb To urinate on or in.
  3. transitive verb To discharge (blood, for example) in the urine.
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  • Eventually the water turns to beer and then to piss, and the resident sorcerer mumbles something about alchemy and fondles the dryad who lives in the bookcase. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
  • I waited five minutes for her to come back and tell me to be sure and piss, and then another five for the snakes and rabbits to show up, or worse, Fred and Eleanor, dressed in white and dancing side by side. —  Futures Imperfect
  • [261] Quoyle thought of the barrel full of piss, the tiny aluminum rooms. —  The Shipping News
  • Apparently Jesse had to take a piss, and while he was off in the bushes, the killer got poor Shawn. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 2] - Changeling
  • If you want to piss, then do it The younger you are, the easier it is to flop. —  XXXX
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English pissen, from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pissiāre, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English pissen, pyssen, pischen = OFries. pissia = D. Middle Low German Low German pissen = German pissen = Icelandic Swedish pissa = Danish pisse, from French pisser = Provencal pissar = Italian pisciare, piss; supposed to be of imitative origin, perhaps orig. suggested by L. pitissare, pytissare, from Greek πυτίζειν, spurt out water, spit frequently, freq. of πτύειν, = Latin spuere, spew, spit: see spew.
  2. from Middle English pysse = Dutch pis = Middle Low German pisse = German pisse = Icelandic Swedish piss = Danish pis; from the verb.
 

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