pissed adj.1
drunk; thus half-pissed, tipsy.
| [ | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘The Quay-side Shaver’ in A Garland of New Songs (1) 3: For all they can say, Sir, she still rasps away, Sir, / And sweeps round the jaw the chop torturing tool; / Till they in a pet, Sir, request her to wet, Sir, / But she gives them for answer, ‘Sit still, you piss’d fool!’]. |
| ‘O’Reilly’ in (1979) 165: As I was sitting in Reilly’s bar / Getting pissed on gin and water. | |
| Mint (1955) 152: I’m that pissed I can’t see where you are. | |
| This Gutter Life 16: God blast the bastard but wasn’t she clairvoyant when she was p****d! | |
| Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 12: On Monday nights at the club they speak proudly of having got ‘pissed’ as they call getting drunk. | |
| Diaries 15 Apr. 131: Vere got rather pissed as usual & became stupidly maudlin. | |
 | Enemy in the Blanket (1972) 358: ‘They killed him,’ he said. ‘ [...] That’s why I’m getting pissed, see? You get pissed with me,’ he invited. | |
| We Think The World Of You (1971) 147: Ah-h, I feel like getting pissed. | |
| Sir, You Bastard 155: Perhaps he was [...] partially pissed. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Notes for Gloss. of Barbadian Dial. 88: Pisstoratically. [...] Applied to a certain stage of drunkeness. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Queens’ Vernacular 147: peed stinking drunk. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 95: PISSED — Drunk. | |
| Songlines 62: Want to come out and get pissed? | |
| Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] He was on a year suspended for pissed driving. | |
| Never a Normal Man 313: Then I got pissed in Southampton’s singularly depressing pubs. | |
| Urban Grimshaw 9: We’d turn up half pissed [...] and it just didn’t look good. | |
| Cherry Pie [ebook] A pissed guy [...] was doing a little dancing. | |
| Life 171: Even the drink didn’t get you pissed. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Bloody January 52: ‘[W]e are going to get pished, my friend – royally pished’. | |
| Class Act [ebook] Stumbling home pissed. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Braywatch 2: Pissed. The two of them. | |
| Opal Country 39: ‘He was pissed, drunk as all fuck’. |
In phrases
in combs. with a n., very drunk; for expressions other than those listed below see drunk as (a)... adj.
| Breaking Out 63: Rolling home pissed as a tit. | |
| Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 14: ’E’s pissed as a puddin’. | |
| Viz June/July 43: Pissed as a cunt! | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 158: pissed as ten pigeons under a mockamock tree Very inebriated, as pigeons become from feasting off the makomalco, the wineberry tree. | |
| Man-Eating Typewriter 246: ‘Pissed as a goose, my cherries’. |
| (con. 1959) Up the Cross 46: ‘We were all pissed as fowls’. | |
| Long Lives the King 53: Your mate’s as pissed as a chook and you don’t look too steady on your pins [DNZE]. |
| Twitter 3 Jan. 🌐 Pissed as a coot while ‘on duty’, at our expense. Now we know how she [i.e. Liz Truss] landed up selling out UK on those Japanese & Oz trade deals. |
| (con. 1962) Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 54: You were pissed as a fart, driving along and ... | |
| Lingo 125: The Lingoist has available the following: pissed as a fart; pissed as a newt; pissed as a parrot. | |
| Hooky Gear 152: Told him I’d been bouncin off the walls, pissed as a fart. | |
| Peace 146: ‘Pissed as a fart.’ ‘Trolleyed’. |
| My Friend Judas (1963) 162: Do come round. We’ll get honking ... Pissed as newts. | |
| Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 24: I was stoned as hell [...] pissed as a newt. | |
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxviii 10/2: pissed as a newt: Very drunk indeed. | |
| (con. 1950s) Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 50: My father was pissed as a newt by ten o’clock. | |
| Lingo 125: The Lingoist has available the following: [...] pissed as a newt. | |
| Observer Screen 30 Jan. 9: Our audience are all pissed as newts! |
| Dirty Half-Mile (1989) 81: Gabriel Buchanan was as pissed as a parrot. | |
| Dinkum Aussie Dict. 26: Full as a: The start of many expressions; ‘full as a butcher’s pup’, ‘full as a goog’ and ‘full as a state school’ to name but three. All refer to the fact that the speaker is as ‘pissed as a parrot’. Intoxicated. | |
| Lingo 134: The effects of our occasionally over-enthusiastic imbibing show a great variety of invention and colour, including: [...] pissed as a parrot. | |
| Sucked In 41: Pissed as a a parakeet, probably. |
| [ | | ‘Brood Cormor’ in Works III 5/1: You may not say hee’s drunke [...] For though he be as drunke as any rat He hath but catcht a fox, or whipt the Cat ]. |
| Ukulele Music 83: I had to go and give evidence (I got pissed as a rat for the Hell of it, after that little session). | |
| It Was An Accident 9: I’m pissed as a rat not used to this lager. | |
| Guardian 11 Jan. 16: ‘Pissed as a rat,’ was Hardee’s verdict. |
| Tear His Head Off His Shoulders 65: [...] blacked me eye and all, knocked off me Kiss-me-Kate hat, pissed as arseholes I was. | |
| Muvver Tongue 60: ‘Pissed’ [...] is often extended to ‘pissed as a newt’, ‘pissed as arseholes’. |
| (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 177: Brian and a couple of his mates come home from the pub pissed as snakes. |
| Pushed from the Wings (1989) 108: He was pissed as a sparrow, but I’m still on the wagon. |
in combs. with a n., very drunk.
| Essential Lenny Bruce 20: I’m pissed to the ears. |
| G’DAY 68: At Chrissie you get pressies and get pissed to the eyeballs. | |
| Lingo 125: It is also possible to be pissed to the eyeballs, that is, to be extremely inebriated. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. | |
| Cherry Pie [ebook] The opportunity to observe Victoria’s finest pissed to the eyeballs. |
| (con. 1967) Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 113: I’m in a fucking cab pissed to the gills and going to dinner. | |
| Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 pissed to the gills (adjective phrase) very inebriated. |