Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The dandelion.
Wiktionary
- n. The dandelion.
- n. dialect Any of various wild plants: the dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
Etymologies
- piss + bed, from dandelion's supposed diuretic effect. (Wiktionary)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pissabed’.
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Ponderable Plant Names
List of plant names (common or scientific) that go trippingly off the tongue, are fun to contemplate, expose the wit of the namer, or just plain befuddle.
tongueshape mudmi..., glandular maiden ..., jeweled maiden fern, stately maiden fern, hairy maiden fern, downy maiden fern, widespread maiden..., turkey tangle fog..., yankeeweed, clitoria fragrans, clitoria mariana, tall tumblemustard and 261 more...
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I'm making this list under duress by bilby. See comments on Specific Excrement and May or May Not Be Specific But Definitely Is Not Excrement.
If you really want to see them, I mean.inspissate, pissabed, premarin, lotium, wee, epistle, piston, haematuria, melanuria, fairy piss, piscina, pissant and 25 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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new words
faulty parallelism, antebellum, lucubrate, retronym, asyndeton, polysyndeton, chiasmus, laconic, dysphemism, zeugma, subpoena, dialectic and 130 more...
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Legged
Animals with lots of legs.
millipede, pissabed, iniquity, shongololo, myriapod, polypod, centipede, peripatus, onychophoran, chilopod, pselaphognath, scolopendra and 24 more...
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Jamaica
irie, duppy, saltfish, ackee, callaloo, boonoonoonoos, jonga, pissabed, iniquity, quackoo, ruinate, braata and 28 more...
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via Poplollies & Bellibones
It's that time again!
acclumsid, acersecomic, adam's ale, afterling, assything, bawdreaming, bedswerver, spousebreak, beek, bellibone, bellytimber, bubble-bow and 86 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear I'm not sure I'll be able to watch the first couple of Harry Potter movies without giggling.
"piss v OED pissabed obs exc dial (1597–1822); EDD piss-a-bed sb 1, 2.
Comb piss-a-bed, ~ t' bed: dandelion (Taraxacum officinale); DUMBLEDORE. ...
1975 SCOTT 39 The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledor, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds."
—Dictionary of Newfoundland English Jan 27, 2009
reesetee This page smells funny. Jul 21, 2008
chained_bear 1. Bilby, you're right.
2. *horks* Jul 11, 2008
bilby There aren't many people who can slip repugnatorial into a comment like mollusque. Jul 11, 2008
she Also dandelions, so named for the diuretic effect (who knew?). Jul 11, 2008
mollusque They call them pissabeds because the big (4-6") millipedes give off a repugnatorial fluid that stains hands and clothes a yellowish brown. That reminds me of another Jamaican name for millipede: cockspit. Nov 11, 2007
chained_bear Yikes. That's so gross on so many levels... Nov 11, 2007
mollusque A local name for millipede in Jamaica. Nov 11, 2007