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▪ I. ˈpissing, a. and adv. slang.
[f. piss v. + -ing2.]
A. adj. Paltry, insignificant; brief.
b. adv. As an intensive: exceedingly, abominably, ‘bloody’. Hence ˈpissingly adv.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 635/2 Pissing, adj., paltry, brief. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 180 In this teeming world [in Calcutta], nothing was what it seemed to be. The miseries of the idiot and his dependants were pissingly funny. 1974K. Millett Flying (1975) iii. 294 Paper hat leaps on stage, pissing hot to talk. 1975N. Freeling What are Bugles blowing For? xxi. 123 ‘Fuck it,’ said Metcalfe angrily. ‘I'm only a pissing sergeant.’ 1979P. Way Sunrise i. 10 ‘Pissing awful weather,’ said Don.
▪ II. ˈpissing, vbl. n. Not now in polite use.
[f. piss v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb piss; discharge of urine, urination; discharge (of blood, etc.) with the urine or by the urinary passages.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xiii. (Bodl. MS.), Apium..helpeþ also aȝens þe stone and aȝens difficulte of pissinge. 1542–5Brinklow Lament. 3 No more then the pissinge of a wrenne helpeth to cause the see to flowe. 1615Crooke Body of Man 190 The Strangury.., that is, the pissing by drops.., do[th] alwayes accompany the stone of the bladder. 1698in Phil. Trans. XX. 314 It stops pissing of Blood.
b. attrib. and Comb., as pissing-basin, pissing-clout, pissing-place, pissing-time, pissing-vessel; † pissing conduit, popular name of a conduit near the Royal Exchange, which ran with a small stream; † pissing evil, name for diabetes; † pissing-post, a public urinal, also commonly used for sticking up placards; † pissing-while, colloq. a very short time.
1494Will of J. Isell in Somerset Ho. Wills, Reg. Vox, lf. 21 (4 b) A grete Cawdren and iij *pyssing basons.
1672Wycherley Love in Wood i. ii, Down to the sucking heiress in her *pissing-clout.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vi. 4, I charge and command, that of the Cities cost The *pissing Conduit run nothing but Clarret Wine. 1598Stow Surv. 144 The little Conduite, called the pissing Conduit, by the Stockes market.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Diabethe,..the *pyssyng euill.
c1440Promp. Parv. 402/1 *Pyssynge place, oletum. 1693Dryden Persius i. (1697) 416 My harmless Rhime shall 'scape the dire disgrace Of Common-shoars, and ev'ry pissing-place. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. (N.), On every *pissing post their names I'l place. 1699T. Brown in R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. (1711) 328 Whose business and good qualities you may find upon all the Pissing-posts in Town.
1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 2 *Pissing times.
c1440Promp. Parv. 402/1 *Pyssynge vesselle.
a1553Udall Royster D. iv. viii. (Arb.) 77 Truce for a *pissing while or twaine. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. iv. 20. 1678 Ray Prov. (ed. 2) 265 To stay a pissing-while. |