piss-head n.
1. a heavy drinker; also in attrib. use [piss n. (3b) + -head sfx (4)].
Breaking Out 59: The bloke’s nothing but a piss-head. | ||
Campus Sl. Fall. | ||
Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 84/2: pisshead heavy drinker; possibly first in NZ. | ||
Guardian Friday Rev. 11 June 15: Now, he says, he’s just a pisshead. | ||
Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘A real pisshead’s face. Got a nose looks like a dog sleeps in it’. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. | ||
Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘That Yank [...] was just a pisshead’. | ||
Urban Grimshaw 11: A fucking piss-head [...] I thought you were different, you piss-head bastard! | ||
Viva La Madness 83: Wanted to be one of the chaps [...] pisshead plastic gangster. | ||
Guardian CiF 2 Jan. 🌐 Doesn't make everyone a pisshead but thinking it's [i.e. over-drinking] not a problem is stupid. | ||
Braywatch 49: I was too much of a pisshead at the time. |
2. an obnoxious person [piss n. (1) + -head sfx (4)].
Last Detail 176: Shut the fucking hatch, piss-head! | ||
Dead Zone (1980) 349: The one that made such a pisshead of herself when her ‘precious daughter’ fainted at the lawn party that afternoon. | ||
Paco’s Story (1987) 77: Any half-bright, lard-assed nitwit who can comb hair can goddam cut hair in the Army. All those pissheads know is zip-zap-zip. | ||
Guardian G2 29 Nov. 17: Graham-Dixon’s problem is that Giotto wasn’t enough of a pisshead. | ||
Movable Parts 119: And you’d better have exact fuckin’ change pisshead! | ||
Pigeon English 31: The other pissheads were waiting outside. |