Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a chamberpot.

1526		C Mery Talys 14: Of the husbande that asked for master pyspot the physysyõ.
1539		R. Taverner Proverbes or Adagies of Erasmus lx Gvii: Put not meate into a pyspot.
1542		A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 236: Beware of emptynge of pysse-pottes.
1556		J. Withals Dictionarie in Eng. and Latine ‘Bedde chambre with the apparell’ P: A pisspotte, matula [...] Mingo, to pisse.
1560		E. More Schole house of Women Biii: A pyspot they brake vpon his pate [...] The pysse ran downe, by hys chekes.
1577		Misogonus in Farmer (1906) III iii: Some phisicary I’ll seek [...] There be some good men [...] Which would do’t for Godsake without prying in a pisspot.
1594		Nashe Terrors of the Night in Works III (1883–4) 251: All his pispots are crackt and wil no longer hold water.
1608		Pennyless Parliament of Thread-bare Poets 22: The Oil of Holly shall prove a present Remedy for a shrewd Housewife, accounting Socrates for a flat Fool, that suffered his Wife to crown him with a Piss-pot.
1615		Merie Tales of Jack of Dover (1864) 327: His wife [...] went up into the chamber, and out at the window powred downe a pisspot upon his head.
1628		Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests F1: When I finde a slut asleepe, I smatch her face if it be cleane, but if it be dirty I wash it in the next pisse pot that I find.
1632		R. Brome Covent-Garden Weeded II i: Why there’s a Lawyers trick right, make his weapon companion with his Pisse-pot.
1657		T. Jordan Walks of Islington and Hogsdon IV ii: You son of a Batchelor, do you throw your Pis-pots upon my head.
c.1660		‘The Sea Crabb’ in Furnivall & Hales Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript of Loose and Humorous Songs (1868) 99: ‘Alas!’ quoth the goodwiffe, ‘that ever I was borne, / the devil is in the pispott, & has me on his horne.’.
1673		Holborn Drollery 78: Some call’t the Devils Court; to make it true, Shew us his Lodging-Room, Bed, Pispot too.
1682		A. Radcliffe ‘A Call to the Guard by a Drum’ Poems 64: From your crack’d Earthen Pisspots where no Piss can stay.
1691		‘The Hectors & the Vintner’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 9: The Piss-pots are down, the candles are out, / The Glasses are broken and the pots flies about.
1693		Dryden Juvenal III 49: Bless the good Gods, and think thy chance is rare To have a Piss-pot only for thy share.
1700		N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 4: Their Walls Adorn’d with Piss-tubs [...] And ’tis a strong Argument, that too many have more Respect for a Pissing-Corner.
1703		Apollo’s feast: or, Wits entertainment 3: The Mayor [...] asked what was the difference between a Rogue and a Fidler? to which he pertly replied, The same difference that is betwixt a Pisspot and a Jordan.
1707		N. Ward Wooden World 79: A Can as big and nasty as a Piss-barrel.
1709		N. Chorier (trans.) of Meursius ‘The Delights of Venus’ in Cabinet of Love (1739) 198: Weary with Toil, and spent, while Callus slept, / I from the Bed into the Chamber stept, / [...] I set the Piss Pot to my Cunt and piss’d.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy III 146: If Constable Kite or a Pis-Pot at night, / Should chance to be spilt on our pate.
1724		A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 426: The dregs of a piss-pot.
1733		Laugh and Be Fat 113: Maids need no more their silver Piss-pots scowr.
1756		E. Collins letter 29 June Misc. (1762) 35: Our Bulks and Pissing Pots have no longer immodest Inscriptions on them.
1771		Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: It will be in the piss-pot presently.
c.1780		The only True LIST, of those celebrated SPORTING LADIES [broadsheet] An auxiliary band of good-natured girls [...] lodge at the Three Flying Piss Pots in Copulation Court.
1786		Young Coalman’s Courtship 8: She can do nothing but scour ladies piss pots.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 315: Old broken piss-pots, stones and bricks.
1831		Satirist (London) 8 May 37/3: ‘What!’ said the King, ‘am I to be treated like a p— pot, to be put out of sight?’.
1841		‘The Man Vot Claps ‘Em On The Peg’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 28: This lady she threw up the sash, Poor Don Giovanni! / He quickly heard the piss-pot slush, / About his ears it came down smash.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) I 88: She stooped to set up the piss-pot which was laying on one side.
1900s		‘The Sea Crab’ G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 247: He put it in the piss pot safe for to keep.
1909–17		T.S. Eliot ‘Columbo & Bolo’ Inventions of the March Hare in Ricks (1996) 316: A great big whore with bloodshot eyes / She bitched him with a pisspot.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 505: You will make the beds, get my tub ready, empty the pisspots in the different rooms.
1934		H. Roth Call It Sleep (1977) 308: My fodder has to give her a pee-pot twelve a’clock every night.
1939		H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 51: Which reminded some sensitive soul of the piss-pot under the bed.
1949		H. Miller Sexus (1969) 142: I had the expression of a Jack the Ripper looking for a straw hat in a pisspot.
1951		in V. Randolph Pissing in the Snow (1988) 22: A fine big piss-pot for Christmas!
1953		I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 35: [You] seize your pisspot amd [...] walk across the yard.
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 270: You jackamanape’s scourings of a lock hospital piss-pot.
1958		F. Norman Bang To Rights 122: He walked past me with his piss pot on his way to the recess.
1959		A. Burgess Beds in the East (1972) 527: The six of them sat round a table, Crabbe’s foot [...] clanking loudly against a concealed spittoon. ‘Ha ha,’ cried Tommy. ‘Don’t kick the pee-pot over.’.
1960		(con. 1940s) G. Morrill Dark Sea Running 97: The only light and air came through a hole [...] no bigger than a peepot.
1964		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 174: I wish I was the pee-pot, beneath my Lulu’s bed, / For every time she took a piss, I’d see her maidenhead.
1968		J. Alard He who Shoots Last 79: ‘There is something in that,’ agreed the preacher. ‘Dat’s wot da burglar said when he put his foot in da piss pot,’ cracked Wrecker.
1977		G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 105: He went out to the recess with his pisspot.
1982		G. Newbold Big Huey 28: At 8.30 every morning they unlocked us. We’d [...] empty our piss pots down the slopping-out basins in the ablutions rooms.
1983		S. Gee Never in My Lifetime in Best Radio Plays (1984) 60: Dotting about in front gardens in the lupins and the dog mess, waiting for some Paddy bastard to throw a pisspot on your head.
1993		(con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 37: That bloody, buggering bastard Lloyd George, he’s got a head on him like a forty-shilling pisspot.
1994		B. Payne Poor Behaviour 49: A man with ‘Animal’ tattooed on his forehead is emptying a piss-pot into Billy’s neighbour's bed.
1996		D. Healy Bend for Home 29: He has your eyes, Winnie. Like diamonds in a pisspot. [Ibid.] 263: She used to milk the cow into the fucking pisspot.
2004		N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 55: The piss-pot had to be scrubbed clean.
2004		R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘She what? [...] Emptied a piss pot over him?’.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 141/2: pisspot n. a cell chamberpot; in some prisons, inmates do not have flush toilets in their cells.

2. an unpleasant person.

1593		Nashe Four Letters Confuted in Works II (1883–4) 236: Had phisition Iohn liu’d, or not dyde, a little afore Dog-dayes, a sinode of Pispots would haue concluded, that Pierce Pennilesse should be confouded without repriue.
1655		Gossips Braule 7: Thou fetch a Warrant for mee Piss-pot; do, do, Ide have thee begin once.
1694		Motteux (trans.) ‘Epistles to Two Women’ Rabelais (1927) II 709: Old drunken piss-pot, sink of filth and sin.
1862		in J. Robertson Soldiers Blue and Gray (1998) 128: [The cavalry man branded the colonel a] ‘God damned fussy old pisspot’.
1936		J.T. Farrell World I Never Made 145: Jesus Christ, you little pisspot!
1973		G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 20: Cheap ghinny pisspot.
1982		G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) 113: That’s not what bothers me about Minihan [...] the little pisspot.
1997		T. Fontana ‘Visits’ Oz ser. 1 ep. 2 [TV script] Do you think if the Chevy plant was hiring I would choose to come here and babysit these pisspots.
1992		I. Rankin Strip Jack 177: The more trouble that piss-pot’s in, the better I’ll like it.
2004		L. Redhead Peepshow [ebook] There were suits, country guys, and the occasional tragic pisspot who’d been left behind by his friends.

3. a drunkard, an alcoholic; thus attrib.

1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 132: You may be ashamed [...] to bee such a common drunkard, a pisse-pot, a beast [...] every day foxed & at night brought home by a watchman.
1639		J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 36: You, you drunken sot, you pisse-pot, know not when you have sufficient; thus to come home reeling and staggering.
1862		letter in J.M. McPherson For Cause & Comrades (1997) 56: Lawton is a God damned fussy old pisspot utterly incompetent for the position he holds [...] that damned Col will be hung I fear like a mill stone about our necks.
1955		Accent XV 99: I was shorthanded tonight, so I snatched him from his pisspot of a mother. He’s pimply, but he looks already at home with that bottle.
1960		A. Seymour One Day of the Year (1977) II iii: Y’oughter see old Bert Charles, he’s eighteen stone an’pisspot, c’n ’e drink?
1965		L. Haylen Big Red 151: ‘Just a pisspot,’ said the Oracle, burying his nose in the pint pot. ‘Me, I can take it or leave it.’.
1971		K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: You’re all a lot of superstitious old pisspots!
1984		‘Derek Raymond’ He Died with His Eyes Open 36: It need a man with better nerves than his to run that place, someone who wasn’t a total pisspot.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 102: If I had known what a mess those incestuous Tasmanian piss-pots were going to make all over the shag pile.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 232: [H]er dad was a pisspot who gambled away all the family funds and assets before hitting the toe and disappearing.
1998		P. Doyle (con. late 1950s) Amaze Your Friends (2019) 157: He’d gone to the pisspot clinic, left and stayed sober for a month.
1999		Indep. Mag. 12 June 7: You can no longer go on thinking of yourself as the scion of abstemious stock. Hallelujah! I am the fruit of pisspots.
2008		F. Dennis ‘Wilmot to Sackville and Villiers’ Homeless in my Heart 156: This piss-pot may not be denied, / A bowl of wine shall curb her pride.

4. the vagina.

c.1900

‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 74: Wait till I get my spout fair into your piss-pot, and I’ll fuck your bloody arse off.

5. anywhere unpleasant, dirty, smelly etc.

1963		B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 190: Is there a Journal man in this piss pot?
1964		J. Thompson Pop. 1280 in Four Novels (1983) 394: Ain’t every day they get to meet a real man in a pisspot of a town like this.
1979		M. Marsh Eating Cake 138: I’m so fucking sober! I should have thrown up all over that yellow pisspot of a bedroom.
1988		P. Anderson King of Ys II 64: That dreary pisspot of a town? Nay, not a town; a walled village.
1999		N. Cohn Yes We have No 287: It was a right pisspot, therefore Mal Platt’s favourite hangout.
2001		S. King Dreamcatcher 232: If it gets out of this pine-tree pisspot we’re in, everything changes.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 266: He’s getting the hell out of this pisspot of a city.

6. a lavatory bowl.

1972		C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations etc. 189: Running back to some urine-stained pisspot and letting go.
1982		G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) (1985) 207: [of a lavatory] Where ’sa pisspot?