pissy adj.1
1. soaked with urine; redolent of urine, usu in odour but also colour.
![]() | Call It Sleep (1977) 226: Izzy Pissy! Cock-eye Mulligan! [Ibid.] 255: Gee, bath too I have to take! She’ll see. Pissy-pants. | |
![]() | Hist. of Rome Hanks 20: It smelt warm and pissy in that timber. | |
![]() | Coll. Stories (1990) 267: He came to old man Pissy’s bunk [...] he could tell it by the smell of urine and offal. | ‘Friends’ in|
![]() | Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 214: He had little pissy babies and they were running all about. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Danger Tree 77: The smell that came from them was nothing like the salty, pissy smell of an European urinal. | |
![]() | Whores for Gloria 9: The pissy reek of Jones Street gave Jimmy [...] dry heaves. | |
![]() | Grits 317: The end uv me knob [...] presses cold on the pissy porcelain. | |
![]() | Leather Maiden 44: I threw the pissy underwear in the waste can. | |
![]() | Viva La Madness 130: We trot over the bridge, down a pissy alleyway, and emerge. | |
![]() | Panopticon (2013) 12: Ed has a frizzy ginger mullet [...] a pissy-orange colour. |
2. drunken.
![]() | Diaries 145: Peter Eade evening. A very pissy affair. Dinner at Belle Etoile & I got rather tight. | |
![]() | Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 145: She didn’t drink herself and she didn’t approve of people who did, but for the pissy oul’ fellas that lived in the flats she never ran any of them down. | |
![]() | Godson 174: [He] smiled briefly; she smiled a pissy smile back. | |
![]() | Lex. of Cadet Lang. 272: usage: ‘She was not too pissy to walk (sort of), but no way could she drive.’. | |
![]() | Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 334: I’d get pissy-drunk and harmonize on tunes by the Temptations. | |
![]() | 🎵 Pissy-drunk, throwin up in the urinal. | ‘Amityville’|
![]() | Fever Kill 60: A fat, pissy alcoholic. |
3. unpleasant.
![]() | in Sweet Daddy 15: Real pissy life, Doc. | |
![]() | Big Easy 87: You come over here [...] the only spook that’s ever been up these pissy stairs – just to ask me what’s happening. | |
![]() | In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 167: ‘How’s the weather out there?’ ‘Pissy.’. | |
![]() | Curvy Lovebox 82: Cross the pissy canal over the junction. | |
![]() | Nature Girl 86: I don’t see why you’re so pissy. It’s just a name. | |
![]() | Wire ser. 5 ep. 2 [TV script] pissy little bitch today. | ‘Unconfirmed Reports’|
![]() | Finders Keepers (2016) 207: Enough [contraband] to get him marked down if the screw’s in a pissy mood. | |
![]() | Glorious Heresies 87: ‘Trying to ascertain what I know before choosing your best answer is only going to make me very pissy’. | |
![]() | Rules of Revelation 235: ‘You’d want to realise who your allies are. Being pissy with me? After growing up on opposite sides of the same wall?’. | |
![]() | Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 39: A taxi driven by Dave’s pissy brother [...] of all possible slimeballs. |
4. weak, ineffectual, trifling.
![]() | Hall of Mirrors (1987) 318: You pissy little snot. | |
![]() | Choirboys (1976) (1977) 237: I suspect he’s one a these pissy pork pullers. | |
![]() | Homesickness (1999) 20: The beer’s pissy too. | |
![]() | Candy 33: We spent a week [...] smoking some pissy blond hash. | |
![]() | Skinny Dip 211: He heard some pissy liberal refer to the federal farm bill as corporate welfare. | |
![]() | Stoning 287: ‘This isn’t some pissy traffic offence’. |
5. (Aus.) of inanimate objects, inferior, malfunctioning.
![]() | Paydirt [ebook] Clouds of [thiock dust] had poured in around the Valiant’s pissy door seals. |
In compounds
see pissant adj.
1. (also pissy-arsed) extremely drunk.
![]() | My Days of Anger 98: ‘We’re all pissy-arsed,’ Marty said. ‘And getting more pissy-arsed,’ Red said. | |
![]() | Folded Leaf (1999) 167: Reinhart, you’re drunk, you’re pissyass drunk. You’re so drunk the bed’s going round. | |
![]() | (con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 420: Let’s go somewhere to some goddamn pub [...] and get pissy-ass drunk. | |
![]() | Maledicta IX 161: No American would say [...] pissy-arsed (which Eric Partridge renders as ‘prone to crapulous inebriation’ – ain’t that a pisser!). | |
![]() | White Shoes 73: Thirty hours stuck on that plane eating piss-ass airline food. | |
![]() | Iced 169: He don’t even seem to care if I see him piss-ass-stinkin’-drunk!!! | |
![]() | Armageddon to Zen 16: Come on, you, pissy-arsed, drunken bugger! |
2. (US, also piss-ass, piss-assed, pissy-assed, pissy pants) insignificant, useless, juvenile.
![]() | letter 12 Mar. in Charters I (1995) 336: You pissy ass Seattle, you dullpoke old Minneapolis St Paul. | |
![]() | (con. early 1950s) Valhalla 161: Like what a silly pissyass Testical Sergeant in the Marine Corps would do? | |
![]() | Blues for Mister Charlie 42: Every one of them’s got some piss-assed faggoty white boy on a string somewhere. | |
![]() | Thanatos 303: You went in there a pissy-pants brat. | |
![]() | Digger’s Game (1981) 108: He didles along for twenny years with this pissy-ass little operation. | |
![]() | Jones Men 89: I don’t know if you’re not some piss-ass undercover cop. | |
![]() | Different Seasons (1995) 455: You’re just a sawed-off pint-sized pissy-assed little runt. | |
![]() | Breaks 107: I did a slow pan around his piss-ass office. | |
![]() | Way Past Cool 137: Gets him a gun an everything. A real gun, not some piss-ass little toy like yours! | |
![]() | 23rd Precinct 102: ‘I think of what I had to take, to be minutely accepted. It wasn’t acceptance, it wasn’t tolerance. [...] Any whining piss-ass woman would have been chop meat back then’. | |
![]() | Blacktop Wasteland 52: ‘We can get paid. Real money. Not some pissy-ass stick-up money’. |
3. a synon. for bloody adj. (1), fucking adj. etc.
![]() | in Sweet Daddy 80: What’s so piss ass funny? |
4. unpleasant.
![]() | (con. early 1950s) Valhalla 304: Always a pissyass rain. | |
![]() | Tenants (1972) 88: My chick and I had a piss-ass flap and I ain’t planning to go back there. | |
![]() | Rat on Fire (1982) 61: I know he’s had a piss-ass day. |
1. (US) extremely drunk.
![]() | Exit 3 and Other Stories 8: You’re pissy-eyed. | |
![]() | Thief 349: I went out [...] and got the drunkest I been in all my born days. I mean – pissy-eyed! | |
![]() | New York Mag. 19 Aug. 81/2: [He] always comes back, turning up at her room pissy-eyed and mumbly. | |
![]() | Trial 59: Men who might get pissy-eyed drunk on Saturday night and lie down in the cobbled streets. | |
![]() | Gemini Smiled 150: Before he wrote it though, he’d go and get pissy-eyed drunk. | |
![]() | Excrements 157: His tongue was hanging down along his slack jaw like a fat anchovy, and he had a kind of snide pissy-eyed look . |
2. (N.Z.) (mildly) drunk.
![]() | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 85/1: pissy-eyed drunk, but probably mildly. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
(US black/drugs) marijuana that burns with a slightly urinous smell.
![]() | Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 pissy weed Definition: some good weed that got a pissy smell when burned. Example: Nigga this that pissy weed. | |
![]() | www.rollitup.org 17 Mar. 🌐 You go ahead and smoke that ‘pissy weed’ I’ll keep medicating with the good shit. |