Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see pissant adj.

1. (also pissy-arsed) extremely drunk.

1943		J.T. Farrell My Days of Anger 98: ‘We’re all pissy-arsed,’ Marty said. ‘And getting more pissy-arsed,’ Red said.
1945		W. Maxwell Folded Leaf (1999) 167: Reinhart, you’re drunk, you’re pissyass drunk. You’re so drunk the bed’s going round.
1962		(con. WWII) J.O. Killens And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 420: Let’s go somewhere to some goddamn pub [...] and get pissy-ass drunk.
1986–7		Maledicta IX 161: No American would say [...] pissy-arsed (which Eric Partridge renders as ‘prone to crapulous inebriation’ – ain’t that a pisser!).
1992		R.G. Barrett White Shoes 73: Thirty hours stuck on that plane eating piss-ass airline food.
1993		R. Shell Iced 169: He don’t even seem to care if I see him piss-ass-stinkin’-drunk!!!
2005		A. Jackson 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.

1952		Kerouac letter 12 Mar. in Charters I (1995) 336: You pissy ass Seattle, you dullpoke old Minneapolis St Paul.
1961		(con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 161: Like what a silly pissyass Testical Sergeant in the Marine Corps would do?
1964		J. Baldwin Blues for Mister Charlie 42: Every one of them’s got some piss-assed faggoty white boy on a string somewhere.
1971		F. Hilaire Thanatos 303: You went in there a pissy-pants brat.
1973		G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 108: He didles along for twenny years with this pissy-ass little operation.
1974		V.E. Smith Jones Men 89: I don’t know if you’re not some piss-ass undercover cop.
1982		S. King Different Seasons (1995) 455: You’re just a sawed-off pint-sized pissy-assed little runt.
1983		R. Price Breaks 107: I did a slow pan around his piss-ass office.
1992		J. Mowry Way Past Cool 137: Gets him a gun an everything. A real gun, not some piss-ass little toy like yours!
2001		A. Schulman 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’.
2020		S.A. Crosby 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.

1963

in T.I. Rubin Sweet Daddy 80: What’s so piss ass funny?

4. unpleasant.

1961		(con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 304: Always a pissyass rain.
1971		B. Malamud Tenants (1972) 88: My chick and I had a piss-ass flap and I ain’t planning to go back there.
1981		G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 61: I know he’s had a piss-ass day.

1. (US) extremely drunk.

1966		M. Rumaker Exit 3 and Other Stories 8: You’re pissy-eyed.
1971		T. Thackrey Thief 349: I went out [...] and got the drunkest I been in all my born days. I mean – pissy-eyed!
1985		New York Mag. 19 Aug. 81/2: [He] always comes back, turning up at her room pissy-eyed and mumbly.
1990		C. Irving Trial 59: Men who might get pissy-eyed drunk on Saturday night and lie down in the cobbled streets.
2006		R.J. Christy Gemini Smiled 150: Before he wrote it though, he’d go and get pissy-eyed drunk.
2010		B. Parker 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.

1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 85/1: pissy-eyed drunk, but probably mildly.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

see pissing-tail adj.

(US black/drugs) marijuana that burns with a slightly urinous smell.

2000		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.
2012		www.rollitup.org 17 Mar. 🌐 You go ahead and smoke that ‘pissy weed’ I’ll keep medicating with the good shit.