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pissn. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: piss v. Etymology: < piss v. Compare French pisse (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman in chaude pisse chaudpisse n.; 1532 in Middle French in pisse chaulde). Compare also Middle Dutch pisse (Dutch pis), Middle Low German pisse ( > German Pisse (15th cent.)), German †Piss, Old Swedish pis, piss (Swedish piss). Now chiefly coarse slang. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > urine > [noun] α. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 285 Þey þrewe on his heed wommen pisse [?a1475 anon. translator vryne; L. urina] out of a chambre. c1395 G. Chaucer 729 Care and..wo..Socrates hadde with his wyues two..Xantippa caste pisse [v.r. pis] vpon his heed. a1425 (c1395) (Royal) (1850) 4 Kings xviii. 27 Y schulde speke these wordis, and not rather to the men that sitten on the wal, that thei ete her toordis and drynke her pisse [a1382 Douce 370 vryne] with ȝou. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in f. 37v (MED) Mirac was ordeyned, for it schulde helpen þe expulsioun..of pisse. ?a1500 in G. Henslow (1899) 18 (MED) Take þyn ouwyn pisse and drynke hit, and þou schalt drynke þy venym. a1550 ( G. Ripley (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 51 (MED) And when their shertes ben filid withe pisse, Then let the woman to washe ben bowne. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus ii. 56 Lothsome and intolerable stench of pisse, and of goates dung. a1704 T. Brown Table-talk in (1707) I. ii. 33 What Miracles..were wrought by Cows Piss and the Cold Bath! 1731 Feb. 62/1 Making furrows with his long nails in the fat..rubs and mixes the piss with the fat. ?1800 34 Your soup is like piss, and your turnips are not half boiled! 1841 4 Drink water..that stinks like p—ss. 1916 J. Joyce ii. 96 That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. It is a good odour to breathe. 1979 N. Freeling iii. 11 The hallway smelt... Piss, cabbage, stale sweat. 2000 7 July 153/2 There was booze and piss all over the floor. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination ?1837 48 Those corner places..Wherein men may walk to the wall, turn their faces, And have a good p—s at their ease. 1865 ‘Philocomus’ ii. 11 I rose to take a morning piss. 1934 J. U. Nicolson 104 This Nicholas had risen for a piss. 1961 F. Hardy 75 The woman copper picked me up—having a piss, I was. The bitch charged me with indecent exposure. 1974 P. Larkin 32 Groping back to bed after a piss. 2001 Aug. 92/1 I can only assume what was to come as I ended my piss and left. the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons 224 Pish, whiskey. Any spirits. 1950 ‘Thirty-five’ Argot in G. Simes (1993) 155/1 P-ss, beer. 1958 L. F. Cooley (1959) iii. 24 He can't keep that pork belly of his going on the thin piss they serve in here! 1978 R. Saw & I. Milbank 56 ‘Turn on the booze..and don't forget it's on the house.’ ‘You little bloody bewdy... Free piss.’ 2003 (Nexis) 19 Oct. 22 The local piss we're drinking is called Toohey's New, though it doesn't matter..what you order over here, they all taste the same. Phrases P1. a. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [noun] 1922 J. Joyce ii. xii. [Cyclops] 314 All wind and piss like a tanyard cat. 1961 E. Partridge (ed. 5) II. 1223/2 Piss and wind, as in ‘He's all piss and wind!’ Empty talk; unsubstantiated boast(s). 1969 13 Feb. 22/4 Mr Eric Lubbock, the Liberal MP for Orpington..said: ‘..I have heard nothing but piss and wind.’ 1992 I. Pattison 23 There's more wind and pish in you than's blowing doon that road oot there. b. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words > vigour of attack 1936 D. Barnes (1995) v. 71 The criers telling the price of wine to such effect that the dawn saw good clerks full of piss and vinegar. 1966 M. Spillane i. 17 Remember the old days, Tiger? You were young and fast and strong. Full of piss and vinegar. 1993 Apr. 109/2 I see Treach like Keith Richards; grizzly, wizened but still full of piss and vinegar. P2. 1929 E. Dahlberg v. 98 He would knock the piss out of him. 1934 H. Miller 83 That boss of mine, he bawls the piss out of me if I miss a semi-colon. 1971 H. S. Thompson (1998) 24 I told him that we had a Vincent Black Shadow. That scared the piss out of him. 1998 (Nexis) 7 Nov. 16 What irritates the piss out of me is when I see people pick up my book, and then just put it straight back down again. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] 1945 26 49 The corporal..sat back in his corner looking a little offended. He thought I was taking the piss. 1953 M. Crosland tr. ‘F. Marceau’ xxxiv. 245 Divorced, I would still have thought about them, still tried to take the piss out of them. 1958 F. Norman 116 This only made us take the piss out of him the more. 1971 B. W. Aldiss 49 ‘Come on, Wally, like—I don't think you ought to take the piss out of the poor sod!’ Geordie said. ‘He's got his living to earn.’ 1978 R. Hill xiv. 145 When Hope replied ‘He's a Hungarian’ he thought at first he was taking the piss. 1995 Nov. 29/2 ‘I don't think people realise how tongue in cheek we are,’ says Johnny. ‘We take the piss out of everyone, really.’ 2004 Feb. 107/1 It's quite anti-establishment from an Irish point of view, the way it takes the piss out of the church. the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adverb] > on a drinking bout 1929 F. Manning i. ii. 61 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. 1942 Aug. 124 Buggered if I know when he'll be back. Gone on the piss, I shouldn't wonder. 1945 P. Larkin Let. 31 Oct. in (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. 1968 ‘P. Alding’ iii. 20 Him not turning up may just mean he's been on the piss. 1994 (Nexis) 22 July I got off the piss and went to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous). 2000 A. Sayle 102 They'd been on the piss the night before..so there are thumping hangovers to contend with. Compounds C1. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun] society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person 1962 F. Norman ii. 17 Some of the less hardened piss artists started to fall a-kip on the floor. 1968 B. Humphries Oh cripes if anything's happened to mum I'll strangle that old piss artist!!! 1974 S. Milligan 53 He's out in Yugoslavia with that Piss-Artist Evelyn Waugh. 1994 R. G. MacCallum 86 Not at all like the nineteen thirties picture of brutality and ignorance that the piss-artists of the press painted gang members as. 2002 (Nexis) 30 June 17 This cultural stereotype of the Irish as drunks has moved from Victorian caricatures of violent neanderthals to the current perception of us as agreeable piss artists. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > chamber-pot, etc. c1527 R. Amadas Acct. Cardinal Wolsey's Plate in J. Gutch (1781) II. xxviii. 325 Item the dressing up of iij pise Boolls withe a Cover. iiijs. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus f. 23v She..powred downe a pisse bolle vpon hym out of a wyndoore. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > chamber-pot, etc. 1819 Ld. Byron 15 May (1976) VI. 125 As to what he calls ‘a p–ss bucket’—it is nothing but simple water. 1973 J. Seabrook 104 The workhouses were terrible places. At Newark, you slept on a stone floor, and in the middle there was a piss-bucket. 2001 (Nexis) 5 Oct. 2 If you're still living in the West Midlands,..you don't want the neighbours to know that you used to have piss buckets in the bedroom. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with urine 1565 sig. Cii Gyt thee away thou pys burnde Cokolde. 1687 A. Behn ii. i. 18 This old Campaign..a Cloak to sculk in a-Nights, and a pair of Piss-burn'd shammy Breeches. 1699 E. Ward I. iii. 3 After redeeming our Liberties from this Piss-burn'd Prison [sc. Bedlam]. 1742 H. Fielding II. iii. xi. 158 A Piss-burnt Beard. View more context for this quotation 1877 E. Peacock 194 Piss-burnt, said of the hair of an animal bleached by the sun. 1994 A. Theroux 233 It is more often than not, usually a sort of rust or piss-burnt auburn or wiry orange. 1970 J. Goodall Massive Probl. Re-entry in Apr. Cocks of coke squeezed like viscid buckshot and hate-crumbs from the piss-flaps of the Klan. 1998 I. Welsh 46 He's a leathery alcoholic guy with short grey hair and a red face. Jowls like piss-flaps. the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess 1946 21 34/2 Pisshead, a title for a sophomore. 1951 G. Wilson 22 Shut up, you piss-head. 1979 J. T. Nichols (1996) vi. 163 Now lay off, pisshead, I've had it up to here! 2003 20 Feb. (Review section) 5/4 Was it, he started to wonder, only a matter of time until some pisshead went one further and glassed him? the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant place the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > caused by urine 1928 in A. W. Read (1977) 68 I'm afraid I might split your piss hole. c1932 D. Thomas Let. in (1966) 4 My eyes are two piss-holes in the sand. 1966 W. Stevens (1967) 166 Guardin some pisshole headquarters. 2001 (Nexis) 10 Aug. 6 I left Manchester in the early 1980s..and to be honest it was a complete pisshole then. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > specific outside 1665 Narr. Case John Porter, Jun. in N. B. Shurtleff (1853–4) IV. 216 He called his mother Rambeggur, Gammar Shithouse, Gammar Pissehouse..& these abusive names he vsed frequently. 1931 7 112 Piss-house, n., the police station. 1937 D. Jones iv. 94 Better see the gaffer—a bit along be the piss-house next the Gas-post—most like. 1951 J. Kerouac (2007) 189 A couple of negro characters whispered in my ear about tea... The connection came in and motioned me to the cellar pisshouse. 1991 I. Sinclair i. 7 A pisshouse, half-demolished; a municipal jeu d'esprit, with green tile pagoda roof. the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [adjective] > of penis, clitoris, or nipples: erect > having erection attributed to full bladder 1788 F. Grose (ed. 2) 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. 1868 tr. Martial 88 Maevius who while sleeping only gets A piss-proud stand that melts away on waking. 1996 (Nexis) 3 Oct. Courageous youngsters, manned with pissproud erections. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation > an act or instance of 1975 Mar.–May 18/1 It was a total piss-take—the end. 1988 (Nexis) 28 Jan. The television show was becoming popular, the characters of the presenters began to emerge and the whole thing was ripe for a piss-take. 2000 Nov. 104/1 Part piss-take, part serious attempt to understand human behaviour, dice theory was born in the late sixties. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation > one who 1976 20 May 408/2 What's funny about a jeweller?.. He's a piss taker. 2001 P. Reizin (2002) ii. 56 What, you mean they all believe in God or something? No jokers? No pisstakers? the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation 1967 J. Orton i. 46 None of your piss-taking. Is that understood? 1971 9 Sept. 21/1 The subjects for piss-taking run the gamut from the chairbound executive's life..to the Amerikanjudicial [sic] system. 2000 R. Topping ix. 85 He'd lost his sense of humour—or at least allowed it to descend into cruel piss-taking. 1979 S. Rees in D. Cluster vi. 162 You had to leave with no opiates in your system. The piss test was their judge. 2001 H. Marks iii. 308 Get..maybe one rubber pointed stick full of drug-free piss..for the piss test. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > chamber-pot, etc. 1974 H. MacInnes vii. 104 If it was imperative, I used my piss-tin, conveniently placed at arm's reach on the mud. 1982 (Electronic text) 17 Mar. Ted always managed to have his ‘piss tin’ in his right hand as he saluted. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Primulaceae family or plants > [noun] 1714 (Royal Soc.) 28 203 Small Aleppo Piss-weed. Androsace Alepensis parva. From a small single thready Root, grow 6 or 7 light notch'd Leaves, very like our common Whitlow grass. C2. Originally U.S. Usually with hyphen. Prefixed to an adjective (occasionally to a noun) as an intensifier, usually implying excess or undesirability. 1940 E. Pound lxix. 174 Bingham, Carrol of Carrolton Gone piss-rotten for Hamilton Cabot, Fisher Ames [etc.]. 1970 D. Quammen 198 Rich..was a piss-bad bowler for a dude six-five. 1974 J. Anthoine in H. MacInnes xi. 202 ‘Here we are,’ I said to Joe. ‘On a piss-wet cliff and there's no bloody water for a brew!’ 1977 4 Aug. 35/4 They manufacture piss-chic cosmetics. 1992 D. Pinckney x. 261 She painted her mouth..but wouldn't report to the record company or to any of the piss-chic parties Gilles always knew about. 1998 L. Hird in K. Williamson 225 For entertainment I usually aim to fiddle about £50 a day which is piss-easy via a subtle combination of over-charging, under-ringing, altering figures and private sales. b. In specific compounds. 1971 T. Williams in Aug. 34/1 Gore..had invited all these—oh, I don't know, these effete snobs... And finally..I announced, ‘There is just too much piss elegance here.’ Which put Gore into a fit. 1989 21 Dec. 6/4 She took refuge in a kind of piss-elegance, a fanciness (the ‘English-style country house in the suburbs’). the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting delicacy 1941 T. Williams Let. 2 Nov. in (2000) I. 353 I am quite fed up with piss-elegant bitches (don't you love that phrase?) of the New Orleans variety. 1947 N. Coward 9 Oct. (2000) 94 The cast is very good. Gertie is enchanting at moments but inclined to be piss-elegant. 1977 24 Mar. 21/2 The Lovely Ladies from South America were so piss-elegant they could hardly lift their feet off the ground. 1993 13 June (Mag.) 32/2 It's too lewd. It has to do with the effect of Christianity and the piss-elegant respectability. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] > very the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > very poor or destitute 1945 M. Kantor xxxviii. 183 I guess I know I'm piss-poor in a job like this. It's trivial, it's dull: I hate it more and more each day. 1948 K. Amis 16 July (2000) 174 I have been looking at that first draft, and it seems piss-poor to me. 2003 D. Gaines xi. 223 Thanks to glue-sniffing, I had piss-poor math skills. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pissv. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pisser. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pisser, Anglo-Norman and Old French pissier (c1180; Middle French, French pisser), probably ultimately of imitative origin. Compare Old Occitan pissar (c1200; Occitan pissar), Catalan pixar (13th cent.), Spanish pixar (c1400; rare), Italian pisciare (late 13th cent.).It is debatable whether the Romance forms can all derive from a single origin; alteration on a sound-symbolic basis also may well have occurred in several of the languages. Compare Old Frisian pissia , Middle Dutch pissen , Middle Low German pissen ( > German pissen (1474)), Old Swedish pissa (Swedish pissa ), Danish pisse ; also Welsh pisio , piso (c1275), all apparently ultimately < French. With to piss against (also in) the wind at Phrases 4 compare French pisser contre le vent (1640). Compare Old French pissier contre le vent (c1280). Now chiefly coarse slang. 1. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)] α. c1300 St. James Great (Laud) 381 in C. Horstmann (1887) 45 His menbres þat he carf of, euer-eft he dude misse Bote a luytel wise ȝware-þoruȝ he miȝhte, ȝwane he wolde, pisse. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in (1906) 14* Pur-qoy ne mynge ane et verder, Wy pissith nout doke and ruddoc. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 328 (MED) Þei salle him ilkone bete him þat he pis. c1475 tr. (Tripolitanus abbrev.) (1977) 354 (MED) Smallache..will enswe seekenesse in the bladder and in the lyuer, and thou nat pisse easely. 1546 J. Heywood ii. v. sig. H v My husband and he be so great, that the ton Can not pisse, but the tother must let a fart. 1594 T. Nashe sig. I3v I was at Pontius Pilates house [in Rome] and pist against it. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. vi. 28 in II Who can tell, if..the Alligarta hath not piss'd thereon? 1687 J. Dryden iii. 82 The wanton boyes wou'd piss upon your grave. 1748 tr. Vegetius 266 When he cannot piss at all, it is called an Ischury. a1791 R. Burns (1968) I. 77 To think how I sat, sweating, shaking, And p-ss'd wi' dread. 1870 tr. A. Tousseau III. 478 Children, who piss their beds dreaming that they are pissing against a wall. 1887 at Be- Bepiss, to piss on, wet with urine. 1941 J. Agee & W. Evans 426 I went out to the porch and pissed off the edge. 1975 W. Kennedy 44 Bringing out his john-thomas, [he] pissed on them so fiercely that [etc.]. 2001 B. Hatch 169 There'll be loads of drifters and students puking on our tents, throwing beer cans and pissing everywhere. 1606 i. ii What Monsier Kynsader, lifting vp your legge and pissing against the world. a1745 J. Swift Dick's Variety in (1937) III. 787 That vulgar talent I despise Of pissing in the Rabble's Eyes. 1996 5 July 32/2 Pissing in the fair face of the Goddess Mother is not a noble human activity. the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain heavily 1948 P. Larkin Let. 28 Jan. in (1992) 144 Outside its [sic] pissing with rain. 1950 G. Wilson 172 It fairly pissed down on top of me. 1972 G. M. Brown (1976) i. 18 The rain came pissing down at the weekend and our thatch is leaking. 2004 (Nexis) 11 July We arrived there and it's a sunny day and the next day it pisses with rain so we go into a little set we built. 2. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (transitive)] c1390 (?c1350) St. Augustine 1402 in C. Horstmann (1878) 85 (MED) Anon riht þenne þe chyld, iwis, A gret stond [read stone] al out dude pis And was al hol of þat seknes. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 62 Ȝeue o bal at þre tymes..til þat he pisse blood; þanne he schal be saaf. a1500 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 19674) in F. Heinrich (1896) 75 (MED) For a man that pissith [v.r. pisses] blood. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa lxxxiii. f. 146 They assemble their colledge togeather to trie out that, whiche the diseased hathe pissed or shiten the nighte before. 1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest i. 1 Urine is that which is pissed. 1689 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck i. 122/1 A Person, who had eat Mushrooms not exactly concocted, piss'd out again remarkable Bits of 'em with his Urine. 1750 W. Ellis 362 A Cow that has pissed bloody Water has been cured in three Hours Time, by putting a large live Frog down her throat. 1784 tr. D. S. von Madai ix. 62 For those who piss Blood, it is more profitable to bleed at the Arm. 1934 H. Roth ii. v. 155 Does he piss water as mortals do, or only the purest of vegetable oil? 1996 S. King iv. ii. 550 He's been feeling punk for almost six months now, and just lately he had taken to pissing blood. 1596 T. Nashe sig. K2 It is bruted, how he pist incke as soone as euer hee was borne, and that the first cloute he fowld, was a sheete of paper. 1606 iii. ii. 40 They are pestilent fellowes, they speake nothing but bodkins, and pisse vinegar. 1680 J. Crowne i. i. 1 I command the Conduits all Piss Claret. a1704 T. Brown Epit. upon Charming Peggy in (1720) 142 Then piss such Deluges of Rain..As shall o'erflow the World again. 1788 F. Grose (ed. 2) 185 Pissing pins and needles, to have a gonorrhea. 2002 (Nexis) 7 Aug. 6 Johnny..drinks gasoline so he can ‘piss fire’. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with urine c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. 142 (MED) A Brutiner, A Braggere A-Bostede him Alse, And bad go pisse him with his plouh, pillede screwe! c1535 Ld. E. Howard Let. in (P.R.O.: SP 3/11/24) f. 28 Yor..medysyn..made me pys my bed. 1580 H. Gifford ii. sig. N.3v Whereat amasde, the lobcocke gazde, And pist himselfe for feare. 1593 sig. Fv Being as often readie to pisse my breeche. a1628 J. Carmichaell (1957) No. 1408 Some excuse mon he have that pisches the bed. 1660 S. Pepys 12 Feb. (1970) I. 54 I would fling the dog..if he pissed the house any more. 1670 D. Lloyd 512 Now..she is ready to piss her self for fear of the Spaniard. 1712 P. Woodman 163 Children that could not hold their Water, but pissed a Bed every Night. 1760 G. Boyle 97 Cut him [sc. a kitten] when he is six Weeks old..then he won't piss the House. 1787 W. Beckford 3 June (1954) 60 The Count de Val de Reis made his appearance in grand gala, straddling as if he had p [i] ss [e] d himself. ?1800 5 O if you had but seen him, you would have pissed yourself in laughing. 1870 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau III. 478 Children, who piss their beds dreaming that they are pissing against a wall. 1909 J. Joyce Let. 16 Dec. in (1975) 191 And all the time pissing her drawers with pleasure. 1946 P. Larkin Let. 7 Apr. in (1992) 117 By the way, I pissed myself over ‘Faintheart never fucked the pig’. Yas suh! 1989 P. Fussell xviii. 278 For a colonel to piss his pants under shellfire is much worse than for a PFC. 1996 Sept. 197/4 Ali was pissing himself and I was acting like nothing was going on, dancing to the records with no kacks on. 2000 K. Reichs ix. 76 ‘Parkas?’ ‘Yeah. Those Kanuk things everyone's pissing their pants to own.’ 1947 [implied in: J. H. Burns vi. 189 The focus of all the pissing and moaning was that Captain Motes was a spineless commanding officer. (at pissing n. 2)]. 1952 J. Blake Let. 1 Jan. in (1971) 38 It's no use to piss and moan about it. 1974 E. Thompson 237 What's the Muskrat pissin about now? 1995 Aug.–Sept. 17/2 The so-called Generation X is only able to piss and moan about the sorry state their parents left the world in. Phrasessociety > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > spend extravagantly [verb (transitive)] 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus iv. iv. sig. Tiiiiv Where is that stroy good (that hath spent vpon hoores and pyssed agaynst the walles, all that he hath.) a1550 ( G. Ripley (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 53v (MED) But as for mony, it is pissid one the walles; Then be they ledd as well for them falles To newgate or Ludgate. 1662 W. Petty Pref. As some thriving men..take pleasure to get even what they believe will be afterwards pissed against the wall, so do I to write, what I suspect will signifie nothing. 1693 H. Crouch (new ed.) 177 He's Prodigal, and Pisses his Estate against the Wall. 1788 F. Grose (ed. 2) at Piss He shall not piss my money against the wall; he shall not have my money to spend in liquor. 1990 (Nexis) 6 May All his relations know that..he'll have money in his bankbook. So they piss it up against the wall and he's back drunk on metho again. 1998 (Edinb. Univ. Student Newspaper Soc.) 12 Nov. (Review section) 5/1 Three hugely bankable stars, the ubiquitous classic to work from, and it all gets pissed up the wall. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [verb (intransitive)] > become lean c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich (1896) 232 (MED) Tak talow of an hert, such as he pysseþ by twene two seynt mary dayes, & marow of an hors, melt hem to geder, & put hem vp.] 1575 G. Gascoigne xvii. 45 Their [sc. the Hinds'] chief meate is the red Mushrome or Todestoole which helpeth well to make them pysse their greace. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. v. 14 Who can blame me to pisse my Tallow? View more context for this quotation 1678 J. Ray (ed. 2) 78 He has piss'd his tallow. This is spoken of bucks who grow lean after rutting-time, and may be applied to men. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xxviii. 132 He's nothing but Skin and Bones; he has piss'd his Tallow. a1641 J. Smyth Prov. in (1885) III. 32 Things ne're goe ill where Jacke and Gill pisse in one quill. 1659 Duke of Buckingham I'le have two fine Secretary's piss thro a Quill. 1682 iii So like in Head, in Heart, in Mind and Will, T'was thought by some, they both had piss'd in a Quill. a1734 R. North (1740) i. ii. §78. 70 So strangely did Papist and Fanatic, or..the Anticourt Party, p—s in a Quill; agreeing in all Things that tended to create Troubles and Disturbances. 1773 A. de Treitorrens 26 Ce sont deux tetes dans un bonnet, They piss through one quill. 1950 K. Rexroth (1968) 230 Anyone in France with an Income of over sixty dollars A month is a rascal, and this Includes existentialists, artists, Communists... They all piss through the same quill. 1984 R. Wilder 18 They piss through the same quill, they are like two peas in a pod. 1642 G. Torriano 19 He who pisseth against the wind, wetteth his shirt. 1663 T. Porter iv. 69 Colig. Slander fly's back in the slanderers face. Host. True, like a man that pisseth against the Wind.] 1734 J. Serenius sig. Ss2v/1 Prov. Piss not against the wind. 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley V. 215/2 ‘Piss not against the wind’, or ‘He that pisseth against the wind wets his shirt’. 1970 E. Pace (1971) vi. 58 Putting words on newspaper pages was, if anything, even more ephemeral than intelligence-gathering. As they used to say at Dartmouth, it was all ‘pissing in the wind’. 1973 L. Snelling i. vii. 52 I'd like to buy it, but frankly I think you're pissing against the wind... He's a pretty cunning little bugger. 2001 3 Dec. 55/2 I get a sense that he knows what will work and what won't... He's the kind of guy who won't be pissing into the wind. 1950 ‘J. Barr’ 205 So far as you and I are concerned, I wouldn't piss on you if you were afire! 1987 17 Oct. 427 I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire. 1998 S. Sontag et al. ix. 207 I wouldn't piss in your mouth if your teeth were on fire. 2004 (Nexis) 18 July (Mag.) 10 People who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire when you're a failure are suddenly all over you when you're successful. 1961 E. Partridge (ed. 5) II. 1223/2 Piss in someone's chips, to put an end to his hopes or plans..esp. in R.A.F...since ca. 1925. Ex wood-chips used as kindling. [1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) adds: or, as prob., potato chips.] 1984 G. Vanderhaeghe (1986) xvi. 219 This messy shlub, this twenty-two year old zombie, would shuffle into the room and piss on our parade. 1998 62/1 Beckham really pissed on his chips when he kicked that Argie. 2003 (Nexis) 9 Jan. But that's no reason to piss on anyone's parade. They deserve whatever awards they take home from Madison Square Garden. 1939 H. Miller 177 He would give her a clout and tell her to go piss up the end of a rope. 1964 K. Kesey 135 You shoulda seen how she dealt with that bunch... She knew how to tell them to go piss up a rope. 1987 (Nexis) 18 May They only have soft brooms here and they might as well piss up a rope because they need stiff brooms. 2001 W. Ferguson iii. 26 Go piss up a rope. 1967 K. Tennant xxx. 283 Soon's they knew you was in with Numismata, they all want to piss in your pocket. 1971 F. Hardy 77 I appeared before him many a time when I worked for the Union. If we piss in his pocket, he's just as apt to come our way. 1996 Sept. 221/2 Athers is a good, thinking captain, and I say that without pissing in his pocket. Phrasal verbs With adverbs and prepositions in specialized senses. to piss about (also to piss around) Originally and chiefly British. the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity 1943 P. Larkin Let. 13 Aug. in (1992) 62 So I piss about spending money, doing housework, tossing myself off (to put it crudely), and listening to Those Awful Blaring Jazz Things. 1947 N. Mailer 403 That was a hell of a way to act jus' cause Ah was pissin' around a little. 1961 E. Partridge (ed. 5) II. 1223/2 Piss about, to potter; fritter one's time away; to stall for time. 1970 T. Lewis 179 Are you coming in? Or do we piss about all day? 1993 July 99/1 We..stared, bored, at the debs who mainly pissed about until 4 p.m. when they were picked up by their Arab boyfriends. 2002 R. Williams i. 4 On second thoughts, stick them near the back. He'll only piss about. 1978 P. Marsh et al. iii. 69 You have to fight or else people piss you about and think you're a bit soft or something. 1991 Feb. 27/2 It's just the coldness of the intelligent man who isn't prepared to let himself get pissed around by idiots. 2000 (West Ham United F.C.) No. 231. 16/1 Joey, who's just signed a new two-year deal after pissing them about for ages and having talks with Reading. the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)] society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > spend extravagantly [verb (transitive)] 1628 R. Hayman tr. F. Rabelais Epist. 50 in Thou that didst ne'r, but for inticement blush: Thou that hast piss'd away thy vnknowne shame. a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in (1708) iii. 3 Thither Libertines repair to drink away their Brains, and piss away their Estates. 1727 W. Somervile 369 Hopeful young Men! who might be great, Die well, and leave a large Estate, But by lewd Comrades led astray, Guz'ling, piss all their Means away. 1948 D. Ballantyne ii. xi. 211 Have to stop pissing away the hard-earned cash though. 1972 P. Knapp 18 Dinty had built up a ‘pretty good roll’. But as he now says with a shrug, ‘I pissed it all away in Paris.’ 2004 C. Lee x. 298 I..can't think of what else to have him do save piss away his time keeping me company while I fret about Pop. the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (intransitive)] a1935 T. E. Lawrence (1957) ii. xx. 186 You piss off, Pissquick. 1944 in G. Rock (1956) 510 Nobody seemed to know anything much, and we all figured bearers had pissed off. 1958 F. Norman 72 So what, I wish you'd piss off. 1974 ‘J. Fraser’ vii. 57 Are we going to piss off home or sit here blabbering all night? 1977 M. Drabble i. 59 Oh piss off, Mum, Maureen would reply, amiably. 1995 A. Enright 58 It had slammed the door and pissed off home. 2000 (Aberystwyth Univ. Students' Union) 22 Feb. 15/1 Should you ever feel the need to piss off to Edinburgh or Newquay. the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] 1946 21 33 He pissed (or peed) me off. An expression used of a person who in any way disappointed the speaker. c1947 T. Shibutani (1978) v. 197 Them fuckers piss me off. 1965 H. S. Thompson Let. 18 Apr. in (1997) 504 And then it starts hurting, especially if you don't have the money or have to piss people off to get it. 1972 (Portola Inst.) 9/3 It did piss me off when the dealer let me go for only five hundred and fifty dollars. 1988 D. French (1991) ii. 63 It seemed to me that his thrill was more in pissing women off than it was in either frightening them or turning them on. 2003 ‘Zane’ ix. 55 What really pissed me off was Jon talking about my sex life. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd iii. iv in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. Eeeeee2v/2 Why, every Boy ith' Towne will piss upon thee. a1689 W. Cleland (1697) 129 If they chance to Temporize.., And tell King James of their Franchees, their Charter and Conditions; He'll piss upon them and their Laws. 1750 T. Gordon 72 They cannot impose upon their Prince, nor piss upon the laws. 1777 3 It was too much for you to take the place of the first Nobles of the land, and then..spit and piss upon them into the bargain. 1951 J. Jones xix. 283 I have never liked being pissed on, Sir. Even by a noncommissioned officer. 1964 H. S. Thompson Let. 23 May in (1997) 453 I..urge you to forswear politics. It is a tub of dirty water. The more I write about it the more I piss on it. 1986 B. Hudson & L. Pickering Piss all over, to beat comprehensively. 1987 A. Bennett 42 Seat yourself at our trusty Remington, John, and we will piss on this person from a great height. 1988 D. McGill 84 We pissed all over Marist, even though they had that Junior All Black joker. 2001 Dec. 128/2 [She] has her bad girl image pissed on from a great height as she squirms with mortification as Luke interviews her. 1936 J. T. Farrell xxiii. 339 I don't care! Shit on the world! Piss on the world! 1977 J. Langone xix. 195 Piss on him, I'm goin' over to the club and get me a beer. 2003 18 175 Post-September 11 bumper stickers such as ‘Up yours, bin Laden’, ‘Piss on you, bin Laden’, and ‘Yo Mama, Osama’. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > extinguish (fire) [verb (transitive)] > by urine a1450 De Oblacione Iugis Sacrificii (Titus) l. 1447 in (2001) 194 But antecrist haþ nouȝ pissid out þe fire bi his yuyl ensample and stopping of Goddis lawe. 1568 A. Scott (1896) ii. 87 The fyre wes pischt out. 1654 J. Mennes sig. Z4v The wives of Wapping..there sit and drink, Till they spue and stink, And often pisse out the fire. 1664 S. Butler i. 26 Command me to piss out the Moon, And 'twill as easily be done. 1707 E. Settle i. ii. 6 I am resolved I will go abroad, and see this sight, though the Devil stay at home and piss out the Fire. 1711 J. Swift Elegy on Partridge in 396 Whom Roguish Boys..Torment by pissing out their Lights. 1994 (Nexis) 2 Mar. d9 One person asked what women could learn from men. ‘To piss out a campfire,’ Arnold shot out. 2002 (Nexis) 3 Dec. 5 Would you trust one them to piss out a fire in your dustbin? the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to 1937 E. Pound I. 49 Talleyrand stank with shanker And hell pissed up Metternich. 1971 B. Malamud 178 You ought to burn up both of these yourself, Willie, on account of this cat stole your white bitch and pissed up your black book. 1976 ‘D. Craig’ xvii. 118 Did I let them just unload it because they pissed up a job?.. This was my money that had been lifted. 1994 (Nexis) 4 June There is a strong message in back to basics. The Tories just pissed it up. 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