piss n.
1. urine.
![]() | Wife of Bath’s Prologue line 729: How Xantippa caste pisse up-on his heed. | |
![]() | Promptuarium Parvulorum 402/1: Pysse, or pysche, urina, minctura. | |
![]() | Schole house of Women Biii: A pyspot they brake vpon his pate [...] The pysse ran downe, by hys chekes. | |
![]() | Ulysses upon Ajax 42: In commendation of p——g, bringing out of Valerius the story of the Cretans who [...] drunk their own p—s. | |
![]() | Honest Whore Pt 1 II i: Fah, not I, makes your breath stinke, like the pisse of a Foxe. | |
![]() | Knave of Hearts 45: You sent me to the Doctors with your pisse, And by the way, the Vrinall did breake [...] pray you leake againe, And Ile to morrow, take some further paine. | |
![]() | Epigrams II No. 43: Found meanes to write his mind in excellent verse: / For want of Pen and Inke, with pisse and ordure. | |
![]() | Hesperides 109: Sudds Launders Bands in pisse; and starches them / Both with her Huband’s, and her own tough steame. | ‘Upon Sudds a Laundresse’|
![]() | Poems and Satires (1892) 50: His patient piss he could hold longer than / An urinal. | ‘Last Instructions to a Painter’|
![]() | Poems 64: From your crack’d Earthen Pisspots where no Piss can stay. | ‘A Call to the Guard by a Drum’|
![]() | ‘The 2nd Part of St. George for England’ in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 331: As birch is soaked first in Piss when Boys are to be whipt. | |
![]() | A great & famous scoldling-match 3: Out upon you, you old fulsom Punk you; your Breath stinks worse than the rank Piss of a hunted Bitch-Fox. | |
![]() | Humours of a Coffee-House 16 Jan. 91: Your Sal Volatile Oleosum Man, that makes such a Noise with crying old stinking Piss about the Town. | |
![]() | Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 141: Little Jingles, little Chimes, / [...] / Piddling Ponds of Pissy-Piss. | ‘Namby Pamby’ in A. Carpenter|
![]() | ‘The Gentleman’s Study’ Dublin Mag. 18: Four different Stinks lay there together, Which were, Sweat, Turd, and Piss, and Leather. | |
![]() | Derby Mercury 10 July 2/2: They would only require us to believe that the Parings of a Cucumber are a Leg of Mutton, and that a Pot of Piss is a Mug of Strong Beer. | |
![]() | Hist. of Jack Horner 18: They caper’d high, the piss did fly. | |
![]() | ‘The Giblet Pye’ in | (1979) 227: Sly Darby, being enraged at this, / Resolved when next they met to seize / The lock that scatters Una’s piss.|
![]() | Bugger’s Alphabet in (1979) 42: C is the cunt all covered in piss. | |
![]() | ‘The Racehorse’ Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 4: What stuff is that your munchin? / Drink water too that stinks like p-ss. | |
![]() | Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 1 Apr. 3/2: Mr. D—d P—s [...] has discontinued sending his mad-servant to his shipmate J—n H—s for half a pint of Ale for his supper; as D— discovered her in the dark making up the deficiency in p**s. | |
![]() | ‘The Love Feast’ in Stories the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell (1994) 58: When quite undressed, the bower of bliss / Dissolved in one warm rush of piss / Whose briny jet bedewed the nick. | |
![]() | My Secret Life (1966) X 2083: As my sperm rises I love her, could drink her piss, her blood, so do I long to be incorporate with her. | |
![]() | Crissie 81: ‘I drink your pizz, I eat your bottham’. | |
![]() | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 96: That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. | |
![]() | Ulysses 161: Spaton sawdust, sweetish warmish cigarette smoke, reek of plug, spilt beer, men’s beery piss, the stale of ferment. | |
![]() | Tropic of Cancer (1963) 56: The globe was sprayed with warm turtle piss. | |
![]() | For the Rest of Our Lives 52: The drunken back streets of Cairo where [...] the gutters stank of piss. | |
![]() | Junkie (1966) 138: It stinks like piss in here. | |
![]() | Up the Junction 29: The toilet is aswim with piss. | |
![]() | Scully 174: Y’all shitbags an’ cack merchants [...] y’all stewin’ in y’own piss. | |
![]() | Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 34: He thinks his piss now tastes like wine. | |
![]() | (con. 1970) Dazzling Dark (1996) II v: My heart pumps piss for you. | Danti-Dan in McGuinness|
![]() | Turning (2005) 123: The ointment’s active consituent is urea. He knows what that is. Piss! | ‘Cockleshell’|
![]() | Panopticon (2013) 131: A flood of pish darkens his crotchless breecks. Thick yellow snot drips off his glasses. | |
![]() | 🎵 Mi piss clean, mi batty clean / [...] / Mi hole clean / And mi mouth bloodcaat clean. | ‘A Bagga Tings’|
![]() | Finders Keepers (2016) 141: He rode down to the lobby in the piss-smelling elevator. | |
![]() | Young Team 38: [Y]ir typical Scottish pub, toilet stinkin ae pish, faded tartan carpets, dark wooden furnishings. | |
![]() | Blacktop Wasteland 36: ‘I’ve pissed myself. [...] Do you understand that? I’m sitting here in a puddle of piss’. | |
![]() | Consolation 13: Piss and shit odours drilling into his sinuses. |
2. an act of urination.
![]() | Proceedings at Sessions of Peace, and Oyer and Terminer (City of London) Jan. 19/1: He ask’d him, what Business he had at that Post? [...] Then the Prisoner said, he had been at Piss. | |
![]() | ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ Cuckold’s Nest 48: How very convenient are those corner places, / Which beside every gin shop one sees, / Wherein men may walk to the wall, turn their faces, / And have a good p--s at their ease. | |
![]() | ‘Sally May’ Nancy Dawson’s Cabinet of Songs 8: At p-ss one day I saw the lass. | |
![]() | Ulysses 546: Was he insulting you while me and him was having a piss? | |
![]() | Call It Sleep (1977) 247: I godda take a piss. | |
![]() | letter 15 May in Leader (2000) 66: To put a lump of sugar in his mouth or go for a piss. | |
![]() | From Here to Eternity (1998) 613: Every time I took a piss I thought I had the clap for sure. | |
![]() | All Night Stand 58: [I] tried to amuse myself by having a piss. | |
![]() | Coll. Poems (1988) 169: Groping back to bed after a piss / I part thick curtains. | ‘Sad Steps’|
![]() | Three Plays I iii: I’m dying to have a piss. Where’s the W.C.? | ‘One Bad Casa’|
![]() | Curvy Lovebox 166: That was that most to-tahly smashing piss I evah have. | |
![]() | Grits 170: When wih get back t’mih car ih gors off fer a piss. | |
![]() | Scrublands [ebook] He [...] has a piss in the public toilet. | |
![]() | Border [ebook] She can [...] sneak into the restroom at Larry & Gene’s gas station across the street to take a piss or a shit. | |
![]() | Blacktop Wasteland 13: He was taking a piss. |
3. as a drink.
(a) (also pee) any sort of weak or otherwise unpalatable drink, whether alcoholic or non-alcoholic.
![]() | Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 153: Dat tay in de spike ain’t tay, it’s piss. | |
![]() | letter 11 Mar. in Leader (2000) 694: Food excellent, wine awful piss. | |
![]() | It’s Your Shout, Mate! 19: He takes a couple of swallows. ‘Strewth,’ he says. ‘Piss,’ he says. | |
![]() | Giveadamn Brown (1997) 24: [I]t was good wine. No the pee the winos guzzle. | |
![]() | Heathers [film script] What did you do, put a phlegm globber in it or something? I’m not gonna drink that piss. | |
![]() | Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Legge took a sip of his coffee and pulled a face. ‘This stuff tastes like piss too’. | |
![]() | Powder 115: He took a gingerly sip of Mâcon Blanc and declared it piss. | |
![]() | Sheepshagger 184: Whisky, not povo headfuck cheap piss like that. | |
![]() | Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Life’s short, son, don’t drink any old piss. | |
![]() | Drawing Dead [ebook] This wine is piss. It’ll taste like acid and fuck you up in two mouthfuls. | |
![]() | Squeeze Me 109: ‘The dancing’s awful, the music sucks, the drinks are piss’. |
(b) (also pish) an alcoholic drink.
![]() | (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 224: Pish: Whiskey. Any spirits. | |
![]() | Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 90: You can’t stand up to ’em with all that piss inside you. | |
![]() | I’m a Jack, All Right 47: I can stand anything but a nasty drunk [...] A man who gets a skinful of piss and then wants to take on the world, gets my back up. | |
![]() | S.R.O. (1998) 116: ‘What’s the name of that slop you and Charlie were drinking? I’m going to [...] buy you a quart of the piss’. | |
![]() | House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Dope? You take that – stuff?’ ‘Yes. The Lebanese variety is the best piss for me’. | |
![]() | Glitter Dome (1982) 15: It’s this Glitter Dome piss you’re drinkin. Irish whiskey, my dick. | |
![]() | You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 38: ‘Jesus, how much piss did you drink last night?’ He gave the empty wine flagon a kick. | |
![]() | Trainspotting 302: A couple of bottles of your best piss . . . and a table for four. | |
![]() | Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] I liked to see the boys getting stuck into the piss. | |
![]() | Wire ser. 3 ep. 5 [TV script] I like my piss in bottles. | ‘Straight and True’|
![]() | Luck in the Greater West (2008) 5: The cunts come down an’ drank all my piss las’ month. | |
![]() | Shore Leave 94: [T]hey’d spent the night around the fire ‘sinking piss’. |
(c) beer.
![]() | Living Black 220: Got forty-four gallon drums of bloody metho ’n all the piss they want. | |
![]() | Fish Factory 85: Do you blame me for letting him get full of piss? | |
![]() | Broken Arse II i: What? Knocking off piss from the Breweries. Look who cares about a few beers off them? | |
![]() | Goodoo Goodoo 7: Fuck piss, I need something stronger. A vodka. | |
![]() | Our Fathers 140: We’ll have two pints of yer best piss. | |
![]() | Mystery Bay Blues 18: How much did you get out of her bag, Les? Enough for a slab of piss? | |
![]() | PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 204: The local piss we’re drinking is called Toohey’s. |
4. rubbish, nonsense, anything or anyone unappealing, worthless.
![]() | letter 24 Mar. in Leader (2000) 123: They show us their pictures, which are UNRELIEVED BAD NINETEENTH CENTURY ANECDOTAL ACADEMY PISS. | |
![]() | letter 27 Nov. in Leader (2000) 249: Have you read Eliz. Taylor’s A wreath of roses? Piss, but two or three sodding funny scenes. | |
![]() | letter 2 Apr. in Leader (2000) 623: Bawled ‘piss’ and other unspeakables at a young British poet and globe-trotter, who I thought was a great piss-talker. | |
![]() | Campus Sl. Mar. 5: piss [...] Billy’s getting an A on that test was a real piss. | |
![]() | Legs 44: If you dump that swamp piss like I told you, I’ll fill that pot with the best alky you ever drank. | |
![]() | Kill Your Friends (2009) 26: Finally we release your debut album. The NME expends a hundred words [...] to call it ‘undiluted piss’. | |
![]() | Decent Ride 103: Ye git aw this pish aboot no overstepping boundaries. |
5. in fig. use, high spirits.
![]() | Pop. 1280 in Four Novels (1983) 381: Fellas would get all full of piss an’ high spirits and take right off after them. | |
![]() | Green River Rising 161: His time in the infirmary had taken all the piss out of him. |
In derivatives
see separate entry.
In compounds
appalling, unpleasant, distasteful.
![]() | Dreamcatcher 10: For a moment everything is all right again; as right as it can be in such a piss-ache world. |
nothing at all.
![]() | Stand (1990) 1177: ‘The Great Western Desert!’ he cried. ‘The Big Piss-All!’. |
(orig. US prison) bread and water.
![]() | AS XXII:2 Apr. 111: A bread-and-water diet may be called B. and W., though in the Navy and Marine Corps the more usual signification is the alliterative piss and punk. | ‘Some ‘G.I. Alphabet Soup’’ in|
![]() | Run For Home (1959) 65: Maybe you done something wrong and they’re gonna give you piss and punk for thirty days! | |
![]() | (con. WWII) Marines! 59: I was in the bread-and-water cell starting to do my five days of piss-and-punk. | |
![]() | Last Detail 18: It’s not like the brig. They take it easier on long termers. Christ, I was on piss ’n punk for three of the eight days. | |
![]() | Prison Sl. 11: Piss ’n’ Punk Rations of bread and water which are served in the hole or lockdown situations. This practice is not widespread today. |
1. a regular drunk.
![]() | Guntz 17: Some of the less hardened piss artists started to fall a-kip on the floor. | |
![]() | Remembering How We Stood 142: ‘Sports-king’ was an echo of Dublin small talk, nineteen-thirty vintage – the nearest contemporary expression would be ‘piss-artist’. | |
![]() | (con. 1950s) Second From Last in the Sack Race 266: They’re all piss-artists. | |
![]() | (con. 1950s–60s) in Little Legs 2: The old man was like me, a piss-artist. | |
![]() | Guardian 15 Oct. 25: Many, to my knowledge, the media’s thirstiest piss artists. | |
![]() | Outlaws (ms.) 23: It’s not the greatest ever time I’ve had in there. Too many piss artists. | |
![]() | Life 435: My dad turned out to be a great piss artist. |
2. a general term of abuse.
![]() | Prince Charming 205: A bunch of Anglo-French geriatric piss-artists. |
a despicable person.
![]() | Viz Comic: The Big Hard No. 2 81: Ya fuckin’ piss-bag!!! |
see separate entry.
see pisspot n.
(US) an unpleasant individual.
![]() | Price You Pay 8: [U]p comes this walking pissboil and shoves a knife in his face [and Mike] took the knife and threw it away and then unfortunately went ahead and amputated the pissboil’s patella with a .38. |
(US black) a general term of abuse.
![]() | Mama Black Widow 156: Shet up yu stoopid piss britches. |
(US) a contemptible person.
![]() | Stalker (2001) 208: She thought he was a piss bucket, excuse my French. |
discoloured, esp. of a grey wig which has turned yellow.
![]() | Lucky Chance II i: A cloak to skulk in a-night, and a pair of piss-burned shammy breeches. | |
![]() | Writings (1704) 23: My coat it is turn’d, with the Lappets Piss-Burn’d. | ‘The Authors Lamentation’|
![]() | Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 135: On wooden Peg hung piss-burnt Perriwig. | ‘The Modern Poet’ in A. Carpenter|
![]() | Joseph Andrews (1954) III 274: A long piss-burnt beard served to retain the liquor of the stone-pot. | |
![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Piss-burned, commonly applied to a Discoloured Grey Wig. | |
, | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
1. a break – during work or on a journey – for urination.
![]() | On The Road (1972) 26: Every now and then you have to yell for pisscall. |
2. a wake-up call.
![]() | Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 70: Lola you want us to give you a piss ca-- Shall we call you in the morning? | |
![]() | One Police Plaza 296: See that I get a piss call at six a.m. |
(US prison) a prison.
![]() | DAUL 158/1: Piss-can. The station-house, or local jail. Any place where suspects or accused are held while awaiting hearing. | et al.
(US) a club for devotees of urolagnia.
![]() | interview in Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 106: Piss clubs are getting more and more common . |
1. a generally obnoxious person.
![]() | Battle Cry (1964) 144: Ain’t he a pisscutter? |
2. an admirable or exceptional person.
![]() | DAUL 158/1: Piss-cutter [...] Any extraordinary person or thing; anything affording extreme satisfaction or dissatisfaction; an unusual occurrence or predicament. ‘That guy Solly is sure a pisser on the cannon’ (picking pockets). | et al.|
![]() | Stand On It (1979) 94: He knew right away you’d grow up to be a regular piss-cutter. | |
![]() | Dict. of Invective (1991) 302: pisscutter, a term of admiration for someone or something of excellence. | |
![]() | Lex. of Cadet Lang. 270: piss cutter a general term of praise or avowal of enthusiasm. |
3. an outstanding or excellent thing.
![]() | World to Win 296: He kept himself busy figuring [...] the dimensions of a boat he planned, and it would surely be a jimdandy, a pisscutter. | |
![]() | Awake and Sing! II ii: myron: Now isn’t that funny, Big Boy?’ moe: It’s a pisscutter! |
4. a drunken spree, a binge.
![]() | Battle Cry (1964) 191: Burnside and McQuade had gone on a real pisscutter the night before. |
5. a major confrontation.
![]() | Battle Cry (1964) 471: The Japs are staging for a pisscutter. |
see separate entries.
a public house.
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![]() | Amer. Thes. Sl. |
(N.Z.) an insignificant person.
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
1. the labia [flap n.1 (6)].
![]() | ‘Massive Probl. Re-entry’ in Free Poetry Apr. n.p.: Cocks of coke squeezed like viscid buckshot and hate-crumbs from the piss-flaps of the Klan [OED]. | |
![]() | Glass Canoe (1982) 188: Watch it, boy, I’ve got very big piss flaps. | |
![]() | Llama Parlour 91: I’d come from a country where the blokes called a vagina a ‘muckhole’ and the labia majora ‘piss flaps’. | |
![]() | Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 piss flappers (compound noun, count) women’s labia. Very rude expression. | |
![]() | (con. 1991) Dorian 115: He’s like some hideous old maid, who’s terrified a roach is going to crawl into her piss flaps. | |
![]() | Dead Man’s Trousers 150: A twsited dark canopy [...] like a vagina wi open piss flaps. |
2. a term of abuse.
![]() | Black Swan Green 91: I says, ‘You’re gonna fuckin’ regret that, Piss Flaps.’. |
a person who derives sexual satisfaction from being urinated on.
![]() | Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 piss freak Definition: a person who derives sexual satisfaction from the act of another person urinating on them. Example: Jermaine be a piss freak, he thank he a toilet stool! |
the erection with which a man awakes, due to the need to urinate as much as the desire for sex.
![]() | Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 289: You know how if a guy wakes up in the morning, and he’s a young guy, he usually has a piss hard-on. | |
![]() | Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words. | |
![]() | Glass Canoe (1982) 183: He hadn’t gone down yet, especially with half of him being a piss-horn. | |
![]() | Incest daughter cap. 2: I just have to piss. That’s all. All I’ve got is a piss hard-on. | |
![]() | Finders Keepers (2016) 3: ‘Old fella’s got a woody. Must have been having one hell of a dream.’ ‘Just a piss hard on‘. |
see separate entry.
see separate entries.
1. a lavatory.
![]() | Narr. Case John Porter, Jun. in | Rec. Governor & Company of Mass. Bay in New Eng. (1853-54) IV 216: He called his mother Rambeggur, Gammar Shithouse, Gammar Pissehouse [...] & these abusive names he vsed frequently.|
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![]() | letter in Charters (1993) 191: Edith (her sister) and Patricia (my love) walked out of the pisshouse hand in hand. | |
![]() | Walk in the Night (1968) 4: Every time a man goes to the piss-house he starts moaning. [...] Well, he picked on me for going for a leak and I told him to go to hell. | |
![]() | Cockade (1965) I iii: Everywhere – the slash house even. | ‘Prisoner and Escort’ in|
![]() | Erections, Ejaculations etc. 410: Nobody wants to lay on the floor of a pisshouse. | |
![]() | Common Wilderness 656: Just brand it on your pecker with a glowing butt the next time you sneak off to the pisshouse to do your little thing. | |
![]() | (con. WW2) Heart of Oak [ebook] The old cunt — he ought to be shot / And tied to the wall of a piss-house, a piss-house / And left there to fuckingwell rot! | |
![]() | Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Danny come in, full of dough, drinking Jim Beam, in and out of the pisshouse. | |
![]() | Birthday 66: Better not, or I’ll be looking for a piss-house every five minutes. |
2. (US Und.) a police station.
![]() | AS VII:2 112: Piss-house, n., The police station. | ‘Argot of the Und.’|
![]() | Amer. Thes. Sl. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
3. an unpleasant place.
![]() | Sanctuary V 249: [...] my seven months in this ambassadorial pisshouse. |
4. (N.Z. prison) that room in which urine tests are conducted.
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 141/2: piss house n. = pub. |
a kitchen maid.
![]() | Peregrine Pickle (1964) 20: He [...] did not scruple to damn her for a squinting, block-faced, chattering piss-kitchen; and immediately after drank despair to all old maids. |
a heavy drinker.
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue . |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
(N.Z. prison) a urine tester.
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 141/2: piss squad n. (also piss test crew) n the prison officers who obtain inmates’ urine samples for testing for evidence of drug use. |
the male urinary tract.
![]() | 🌐 piss pipe The penis. Back in a minute. I have to drain the piss pipe. | on Urban Dict.|
![]() | ‘Sounding’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] [H]e’d hidden that wire inside his piss pipe. |
see separate entries.
a physician who makes all their diagnoses on the basis of inspecting the patient’s urine.
![]() | ‘A medicine for the Quartan Ague’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 277: The Aphorisms of Galen I count but as straws, / Profound Pispot-peepers be you all mure. | |
![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Piss Prophet, a Physician who judges by the Urine. | |
, | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn). |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
of a man, having an erection on waking.
![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Piss-Proud. Having a false erection of the Penis. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his — was only piss-proud. | |
, | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Piss-proud. Having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his — was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Dict. of Invective (1991) 302: piss proud. A priapism, esp. upon awakening. | |
![]() | Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 22: piss-proud adj. To be the owner of a dawn horn; morning glory. |
a visit to the lavatory, esp. during a drive or drinking session.
![]() | Fatty 239: ‘What’s going on, Alex?’ he asked, ‘piss stop?’‘No lud,’ came the reply, ‘lunch’. | |
![]() | 🌐 Before making the trek up to the field we decided to make a piss stop in the school. The closest bathroom to the entrance we went in had 2 urinals and 1 toilet. | ‘Drinking Tales’ Happydrunk.com
see separate entries.
a drunkard.
![]() | (con. 1941) Gunner 17: Get stuffed, Piss-tank! | |
![]() | That Eye, The Sky 39: Ya mum’s a pisstank. |
see separate entries.
(US) something remarkable, impressive.
![]() | (con. c.1900) King Blood (1989) 79: A real piss-walloper, ain’t she? A rip-roarin’ son-of-a-bitch! |
(US) a weak drink.
![]() | Night Gardener 121: Johnson had been drinking something other than this pisswater. | |
![]() | ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 44: ‘Got any non-craft beer? Perhaps Scandi pisswater?’. |
general term of abuse.
![]() | Twitter 5 July 🌐 You and your dirty mates fucked it up, you Pob-faced pissweasel . |
(US) a coward, an insignificant person; also attrib.
![]() | Sneaky People (1980) 161: She took to going about in her kimono, bare-ass underneath [...] and also sparkled the eyes of the little piss-willie who delivered groceries. | |
![]() | Mooi Street (1994) 133: You know when Napoleon sent a piss-willy little telegram to Bismarck, but I bet you know stuff-all about what happened. | ‘Boo to the Moon’ in
Pertaining to (weak) drink
In phrases
(US) weak beer.
![]() | (con. 1968) Citadel (1989) 25: I wisht I could [...] see some of that shit instead of serving buffalo piss to these guys at the club. [Ibid.] 181: You fuckers [...] wouldn’t know fine champagne from water buffalo piss. | |
![]() | (con. 1973) Ted’s Trip Through the Ether 🌐 Anyway to come to a conclusion we decided that the Brit Rep did not want his boys ‘drinking our buffalo piss and barking at the moon’. | |
![]() | Kai’s Komic Kaptions 🌐 Gah! This tastes like buffalo piss! Psst, hey buddy! Would you go get me a REAL drink? |
(US) very low quality, cheap liquor.
![]() | (con. WWI) One Man’s Initiation: 1917 (1969) 11: Everybody is soused on the strong red [i.e. French] army wine — nicknamed Pinard (bull piss). | |
![]() | Stand (1990) 824: If it came down to a choice between drinking Za-Rex and bullpiss, I’d have to sit down and think. |
any form of weak drink.
![]() | ‘Letter from America’ 31 Oct. at OxfordStudent.com 🌐 Better than the usual American beer, though, for which I’m told the official term is ‘cat’s piss’. |
any weak or diluted drink.
![]() | www.lileks.com 🌐 As the watch commander put it, this dogpiss is for pussies! |
see separate entry.
see separate entry.
(US) weak beer or bad wine.
![]() | Smack Man (1991) 97: Bring us three mugs of that monkey piss you call beer. | |
![]() | Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 209: He’s brought [...] two big boxes of wine.’ ‘Monkey piss?’. |
out drinking, usu. with friends; usu. in phr. go/get on the piss; thus off the piss, at the end of a drinking session.
![]() | (con. 1916) Her Privates We (1986) 33: If any of you chaps go on the piss with Bourne, and he offers you a stirrup-cup, you can take it from me he has got you beat. | |
![]() | Sel. Letters (1992) 110: Your letter found me last night when I came in off the piss: in point of fact I had spewed out of a train window and farted in the presence of ladies. | letter 31 Oct. in Thwaite|
![]() | Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 28: Don’t you believe a word of it, Phil — he’s on the piss with his mates! | |
![]() | Glass Canoe (1982) 48: That finished Bob. He got on the piss every day. | |
![]() | ‘Duologues’ in Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery 50: See, er bloke (im as ad that motorbike crack comin ome off the piss that time). | |
![]() | Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 79: He didn’t have to go on the piss all night like the others, did he? | |
![]() | Filth 171: I scored some good gum-numbing cocaine [...] Then I was back out on the piss. | |
![]() | Bug (Aus.) Apr. 🌐 He and some other club lackeys then spent the next two minutes saying how much they enjoyed getting on the piss together. | |
![]() | Artefacts of the Dead [ebook] [Did they] play cards on a Saturday night or go out on the pish? |
see separate entry.
weak beer or other alcohol.
![]() | (con. 1900s) Old Soldier Sahib (1965) 87: Soldiers of the old John Company drank rum and not shark’s p—s. |
(Aus.) beer.
![]() | Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 48: There’s a Hun-type sheilah up here with a dirty great barrel of snakes piss! |
General uses
1. a phr. describing a loudmouth, a braggart, all talk and no action; also euphs.
![]() | Sat. Eve. Post 187:5 6/2: I’m [...] full o’ ginger an’ conceit, like a barber’s cat. | |
![]() | Our Navy (USN) vol. 15 25/1: ‘We're full of wind and pep like a barber's cat’. | |
![]() | Ulysses 314: And he took the last swig out of the pint, Moya. All wind and piss like a tanyard cat. | |
![]() | Of Love And Hunger 113: Full of piss and wind. Called on us to give three cheers for Major Drummond. | |
![]() | (con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 211: You’re – full – of – wind – and – piss – like – a – barber’s – cat. | |
![]() | Fowlers End (2001) 202: These Mediterranean races are all wind, old thing. Just you call their bluff. | |
![]() | (con. 1944) Rats in New Guinea 115: Don’t pay no attention to that mug aleck [...] He’s all — and wind like the barber’s cat. He’s a no-hoper. | |
![]() | Signs of Crime 207: Wind and piss, all Bragging: ‘He’s all wind and piss’ or, more politely, ‘He’s all wind and water’. | |
![]() | Muvver Tongue 42: A person who shows off is described as ‘all wind and piss’. | |
![]() | Lily on the Dustbin 52: They would explain that ‘he’ was ‘full as a tick (or boot)’ or came home ‘all piddle and wind like the barber’s cat’. | |
![]() | (con. 1930s) Emerald Square 260: I thought Lanagan all piss and wind, like the Barber’s cat, and I was in no way afraid of him. | |
![]() | Lingo 125: One who is full of piss and wind is indeed void of content. | |
![]() | Age (Melbourne) 6 Jan. 🌐 Na, don’t you boys go listening to the stock agent too much neither. He’s all piss and wind, that fella. | |
![]() | Opal Country 360: ‘Tuppence might be full of piss and wind, but his assessment [...] looks to be on the money’. |
2. empty talk.
![]() | Start in Life (1979) 328: All his rhetoric about loyalty and standing by people [...] was nothing more than wind and piss. |
diarrhoea.
![]() | Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: arse-piss n. Diarrhoea; rusty water (qv); the shits. |
(Irish) a term of abuse.
![]() | Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Can of piss (n): derogatory term i.e. ‘You’re some can of piss’. |
to become infatuated with one’s own importance.
![]() | Naked and Dead 94: Ol’ Stanley is really feelin’ his piss now that he’s in for corporal. |
(Aus.) to urinate.
![]() | Rubdown [ebook] I hung a quick piss to avoid any future funnel action. |
(N.Z.) a phr. used of a dedicated drinker.
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
to get drunk.
![]() | Burn 24: They used to call him Fisho years ago when he hit the piss a lot. Drank like a fish. | |
![]() | Between the Devlin 21: ‘[T]hey all gave you the arse as well, so you hit the piss’. |
a general phr. of derision or disdain.
![]() | Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. |
to visit the lavatory, esp. to stop drinking in order to do so.
![]() | 🌐 Before making the trek up to the field we decided to make a piss stop in the school. The closest bathroom to the entrance we went in had 2 urinals and 1 toilet. | ‘Drinking Tales’ Happydrunk.com
(US) a phr. used of one who is very stupid.
![]() | Maledicta 1 (Summer) 13: He is so dumb he couldn’t pour piss out of a boot–with the directions printed on the heel. |
to hold in absolute contempt.
![]() | (con. 1920s) Your Dinner’s Poured Out! 219: He wouldn’t give you the steam off his piss. | |
![]() | Smokey Hollow 142: Them nuns are mean rips [...] They wouldn’t give you the steam off their piss. | |
![]() | Layer Cake 110: Dudes who hate them with a vengeance, cos of envy or fear, who wouldn’t give ’em the steam off their piss. | |
![]() | 🌐 It's one thing to be incompetent, and it's a whole different game to not give the steam off your piss. | on Twitter 7 June
energy , ‘get-up-and-go’, aggressiveness.
![]() | Partisan Rev. 59: Little Billie was full of piss and vinegar / And full of sap as a maple tree . | |
![]() | Witch Diggers 381: Same old gism, same old piss and vinegar. | |
![]() | Big Sur 180: A three-year-old boy full of piss and vinegar. | |
![]() | Last Exit to Brooklyn 87: He [. . . .] was all fulla piss and vinegar ta go. | |
![]() | Brotherhood of Corruption 38: ‘[T]hey get all full of piss and vinegar when they don’t get their way’. | |
![]() | Bangs 101: Most cops would go soft on someone who was in a situation they could relate to [...] but this kind of piss and vinegar stuck in Bangs’ craw. |
(Aus.) hilariously funny.
![]() | Aus. Word Map 🌐 piss funny. To be exceptionally hilarious. Maybe originated from when people laugh so hard they nearly wet themselves. | |
![]() | Tharunka (Kensington, NSW) 1 Oct. 7/1: We received more verbal responses to this article than Philthy Ruddock received at the Scientia. The most frequent comment: ‘That was piss-funny’. |
a despicable person.
![]() | in First-Person America (1980) 60: Old piss-in-the-face McCann just didn’t want her back. |
(N.Z.) anything considered very easy.
![]() | Kiwi-Yankee Dict. | |
![]() | Botanist at Bay 37: That padlock is a piss in the hand, princess, when you know how. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
a waste of time.
![]() | 🌐 I would much rather have Nader. I understand that the cards are stacked against him, and that a vote for him is a piss in the wind. | ‘A Vote for Nader is a Vote for Bush’ on Dubya Debates
pointless, time-wasting.
![]() | Corner (1998) 474: The politicians and professionals are still offering up the kind of piss-in-the-wind optimism that compels any rational mind to recall another, comparable disaster. |
head-over-heels.
![]() | Guardian Sport 2 Oct. 16: A nice sharp right-hander on the chin, sent him piss over teakettles, spark out on the greensward. |
a contemptible person, object or circumstance.
![]() | (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 145: And I’m a puddle of piss if anyone is going to make things rough for them while I’m still breathing. |