pissing adj.
1. in fig. use, implying short.
Ralph Roister Doister IV viii: Truce, hold your hands! truce, for a pissing while or twain. | ||
Two Gentlemen of Verona IV iv: He had not been there [...] a pissing-while; but all the chamber smelt him. | ||
Magnetic Lady I vii: I shall entreat your Mistress Madam Expectation [...] to have patience but a pissing while. | ||
Pissing-while a. A very common phrase among the writers of the Elizabethan period for a short time. | Dict. Obsolete and Provincial English 746/1:||
(con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 215: You have the goddamn nerve to build a canteen in pissing distance from our tents. |
2. urinating.
A Strange Horse-Race in Grosart Works (1885) 338: Hobling, which put him in such a heate (He neuer in his life sweating before) that he melted all his tallow, which at most was not able to make a pissing candle. | ||
Essayes of Prison n.p.: Their tongues run faster then the clock one shrove-tuesday, the pissing Conduit in cheapside. | ||
Women Pleased I ii: You gave it me in water [...] it was so hearty I shall turne pissing Conduit shortly. | ||
Hic et Ubique V i: There’s ne’re an Inne-door, nor Pissing-place, but is chequer’d with ’em. | ||
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. | ||
Wooden World 81: A Man without Noise, is a Thing without a Soul, and fit for nothing but a Pissing-Post. | ||
ref. in Dict. of Invective (1991) 9: When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wished to describe the uninhibited behaviour of the wife of the French ambassador upon receiving visitors in 1724, the word she used was pissing. |
3. of rain, pouring down, extreme.
Silver Tassie II 44: In the falling, pissing rine and whistling wind. | ||
Indep. Rev. 28 Feb. 1: Where were you in the pissing rain against Bristol City on a Tuesday night? | ||
Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] I’m driving somewhere in the pissing rain. |
4. a general adj. of abuse; a euph. for fucking adj. (1)
🎵 He’s a loafin mother fuyer, don’t you know / Pissin’ mother fuyer, / I ain’t gonna tell you no lie. | ‘Mother Fuyer’||
letter 22 Dec. in Leader (2000) 267: Here I am and here I bloody fucking bastard buggering sodding pissing shitting stay. | ||
All Night Stand 23: ‘Bad for the career.’ ‘What pissing career?’. | ||
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 152: I heard that, y’ pissin’ old goat. | ||
No Surrender 22: On a pissin’ pensioners’ outing. |