a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 96 Som tyme þe weyes beþ alle I-stoppid, and pissinge is al forbode.

?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 135 (MED) For pyssyng of blod.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aiii^v No moare than the pyssyng of a wrenne helpeth to cause the see to flowe.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 190 The Strangury,..that is, the pissing by drops,..do[th] alwayes accompany the stone of the bladder.

1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica i. xix. 144/2 Strong Diureticks must be used with much caution, for that they..many times cause pissing of Blood.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xi. 49 May he be cursed in eating and drinking,..in pissing, in shitting.

1794 ‘Physician of Bath’ Safe-conduct through Territories Republic of Venus 149 The grand phænomena of the body natural—eating, drinking, pissing, shitting, [etc.].

c1890 My Secret Life I. i. 32 I had a vague idea, though not a belief, that a cock and cunt, were not made for pissing only.

1952 C. D. O'Malley & J. B. de C. M. Saunders tr. Leonardo da Vinci in Leonardo da Vinci on Human Body 480 During a great part of the time..its [sc. the foetus's] pissing is done through the umbilical cord.

1992 Time Out 22 Apr. 67/2 Why bother to go to all this trouble in order to make a string of gags about vomiting, pissing, shitting, jissom, [etc.].

1947 J. H. Burns Gallery vi. 189 The focus of all the pissing and moaning was that Captain Motes was a spineless commanding officer.

1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 12 Listen, trooper..you can just quit your pissing.

1998 W. Lamb I know This Much is True (1999) 330 I couldn't walk home with him—couldn't stomach his pissing and moaning or his I-told-you-so's about dope smoking.

1481 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 275 A pyssyng bassyn of silver.

1494 Will of John Isele (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/10) f. 165^v A grete Cawdren and iij pyssing basons.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 402 Pyssynge place, oletum.

1649 Man in Moon No. 30. 241 Divers Ministers..have caused this Bill to be set up on all whipping-posts & pissing-places in London.

1789 M. Madan tr. Persius Satires i, in New & Literal Transl. Juvenal & Persius II. 321 I forbid that any should make a pissing place:.. boys, the place is sacred: without Make water.

1999 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 27 You might consider rigging an electric appliance in its [sc. the cat's] preferred pissing place.

1650 2nd Pt. Triall Lieut. Col. J. Lilburn 15* Where in the law of Reason, it is to be found, that a man must spend 7, 10 or 14 years in a Suit for Money, Lands or Goods, and yet must have a pissing or breathing time for his life.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 2 Pissing times.

1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. at Buéy Let an Ox Piss, and give him his Belly full of Plowing. You may work him hard if you allow him but a Pissing time.

2003 Phoenix New Times (Nexis) 18 Sept. Five songs into the set, you get that itch in your back, and the spigots prepare to open. It's pissing time.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 106 Cukkynge, or pysynge vesselle, scaphium.

1664 H. Bold Poems 144 Pissing Clouts of all sorts, there were in place.

1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood i. ii Down to the sucking heiress in her pissing-clout.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. vi. 3 We command, That..The pissing Cundit run nothing but red wine.

a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 37 Come along presently by the Pissing-conduit, With two braue Drums and a Standert-bearer.

1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 35 A youth of fair and eminent estate; Who in few yeares had his estate to seeke from pissing Conduit that doth stand in Cheap.

1943 Study & Investig. of Federal Communications Comm. (Hearings before U.S. House Sel. Comm. to Investigate F.C.C.) i. 691 ‘You boys have to understand..that I have to deal with a combination like that of Hartley–David; it is like having a pissing contest with a skunk’. I felt rather shocked at that. Of course, I felt that the expression was very rude.

1961 N. Knox Word 'Irony' & its Context iv. 175 A note to the Dunciad points out, in reference to the pissing contest, that [etc.].

1973 R. M. Nixon Transcript 25 Apr. in N.Y. Times (1974) 22 Nov. 20.8 The point is that ah, now if he’s going to have this pissing contest (unintelligible) all right, bring it out and fight it out and it’ll be a bloody Goddamn thing, you know in a strange kind of way that’s life, isn’t it.

1982 ‘W. T. Tyler’ Rogue's March xii. 101 What was it?..A pissing contest?

2002 Cult Times Apr. 34/2 By half way into the show's second season, there's still a bit of a pissing contest going on between Captain Hunt and himself.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Diabethe,..the pyssyng euill.

1684 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) Diabetes, the Pissing evil.

1971 Washington Post 7 Dec. a12/6 One Western diplomat,..discounting the significance of the Sino-Soviet arguments..described it as ‘a pissing match, and I'm glad not to be caught in the crossfire’.

1979 Forbes 5 Feb. 53/3 I'm virtually immune to criticism. Some people are too sensitive to get involved in a pissing match. Not me.

2000 N.Y. Press 5 Apr. i. 7/4 Getting into a pissing match with one of the most powerful men in the world isn't exactly sensible.

1619 J. Taylor Kicksey Winsey sig. C On euery pissing post, their names I'le place.

1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus Seven New Colloquies ii. 20 Whose Business and good Qualities you may find upon all the Pissing-posts in Town.

1736 J. A. Purves Law-visions xii. 175 Men had not Posts then, because they would admit themselves to be made Pissing Posts.

1994 Interrace (Nexis) 5 6 I think he lost a couple of teeth but it serves him right. I'm nobody's pissing post.

2003 T. Tucker Bolt of Fate i. i. 3 The measured thump of the press issuing..broadsides that would be tacked onto all the pissing posts in Boston.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. viii. sig. H.j^v Truce for a pissing while or twaine.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 24 The Galli Gallinacei, or cocking French swarme euery pissing while in their primmer editions.

1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers iv. 66 I had not the power..to keep from you longer, Lady, not so much as a pissing while, d'ye see!

1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd ii. ii. 16 Your Knight Errant must not be looking out every pissing while for a Surgeon to heal him.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 42^v (MED) Þanne þis aquosite þus discerned is y-seid vrinalis, or pissinge, þe whiche ys y-sent forþ þoruȝ þe passynge poris to þe bladdre.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 42^v The pissing Boye lift vp his pricke.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal Satires iii, in Wks. (1887) XIII. 142 They praise a belching, or well-pissing lord.

1928 S. O'Casey Silver Tassie ii. 44 In the falling, pissing rine and whistling wind.

1988 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Sept. We go out six days a week in the freezing cold and pissing rain.

2004 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 2 Oct. c5 We spent the night camped among road trains filled with clattering, pissing, baaing sheep.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 635/2 Pissing, adj., paltry, brief.

1943 J. Dos Passos Number One ii. 91 Hot dickerty damn, there are twenty thousand people there if there's a p-p-pissin' man.

1946 D. Du Maurier King's Gen. xxxi. 309 He would send a driblet here, a driblet there, some score of pissing landings scattered round the whole of Cornwall.

1975 N. Freeling What are Bugles blowing For? xxi. 123 ‘Fuck it,’ said Metcalfe angrily. ‘I'm only a pissing sergeant.’

1998 L. Hird in K. Williamson Rovers Return 255 Such an unbelievable amount of noise for a pissing little fire in a bucket.

1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 170 One night we were alone on duty and he came back pissing mad. ‘I told some boys in there to keep quiet and they're still making noise.’

1951 K. Amis Let. 22 Dec. (2000) 267 Until Jan 3 or 4 here I am and here I bloody fucking bastard buggering sodding pissing shitting stay.

1974 K. Millett Flying viii. 294 Paper hat leaps on stage, pissing hot to talk.

1979 P. Way Sunrise i. 10 ‘Pissing awful weather,’ said Don.

2003 Bang Apr. 12/1 It's a pissing cold Tuesday night, but every available inch of floor space is taken up by tiptoeing people.

1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 180 In this teeming world [sc. in Calcutta], nothing was what it seemed to be. The miseries of the idiot and his dependants were pissingly funny.

1998 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 26 Oct. (Guide) 4 It's pissingly funny at times too.