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pissabed|ˈpɪsəbɛd|
[f. piss v. + abed, from its diuretic property. So F. pissenlit dandelion (1545).]
1. a. A name for the dandelion.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xxviii. 223 The flowers of Dandelion or Pisse-abed. 1636Heywood Loves Mistris i. Wks. 1874 V. 97 Garlands..Of Blew bottles, and yellow pissabeds That grew amongst the Wheate. 1788Wolcott (P. Pindar) Peter's Proph. Wks. 1792 III. 79 Through him each trifle⁓hunter that can bring A grub, a weed, a moth, a beetle's wing, Shall to a Fellow's dignity succeed! Witness Lord Chatham and his piss-a-bed! 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 349 It possesses unquestionably diuretic powers, and hence, indeed, its vulgar name of piss-a-bed. 1953S. Beckett Watt iii. 154 Of flowers there was no trace, save of the flowers that plant themselves, or never die, or die only after many seasons, strangled by the rank grass. The chief of these was the pissabed. 1974G. Grigson Dict. Eng. Plant Names 169 Pissabed (Taraxacum officinale, Dandelion)... The name has too wide a currency to be derived from Gerard's Herbal.
†b. Applied to the buttercup. Obs. rare.
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. Index, Pisseabed..is also Crowfoote.
2. Name for the sea-hare, Aplysia, a slug-like mollusc, which discharges a violet fluid when touched. Obs. exc. dial.
1758Phil. Trans. L. 586 Some call them piss a beds, some sea-cats.
3. Chiefly slang. A bed-wetter; also attrib., as an abusive epithet.
1643in County Court Rec. Accomack-Northampton, Va. (1973) 292 Thou pissa bedd Jade. 1922Joyce Ulysses 395 Pope Peter's but a pissabed. 1959R. Fuller Ruined Boys 195 He beat me at the beginning of term for peeing my bed... Now he thinks of me as a pissabed. 1972R. A. Wilson Playboy's Bk. Forbidden Words 229 Piss-a-bed, a lazy fellow, one who pisses in bed because he's too lethargic to walk to the john. |