pisspotn.

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 60 Sifon, a pissynge potte.]

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 267 Iurdone, pyssepotte [?a1475 Winch. pyspote], jurdanus..urna.

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters ii. x. f. lxi And it happen to rayne, out poure they pispottys vppon his hed.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. ii. sig. C4 Whether..as Paraphonalion A siluer pispot fits his Lady dame?

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 52 Did they coin piss-pots, bowls and flaggons, Int'officers of horse and dragoons?

1672 H. Herbert Narr. in Camden Misc. (1990) XXX. 334 The towne, upon this affront, would empty its pispotts upon us.

1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 614 They hold a Piss-pot over the Womens Heads whilst in Labour, thinking it to promote hasty Delivery.

1817 W. Caesar Poems 43 Pish-pots selling, an' braw china.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxix. 269 They had wandered into a slum where frequently the housewives dumped pisspots out of the windows.

1991 A. Carter Wise Children (1992) i. 22 As young Macduff, he'd entered with a piss-pot on his head and given an audience of sheepshearers outside Perth their best moment of the evening.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. G2^v Had Phisition Iohn liu'd,..a sinode of Pispots would haue concluded, that Pierce Pennilesse should be confounded without repriue.

1655 Gossips Braule 7 Thou fetch a Warrant for mee Piss-pot; do, do, Ide have thee begin once.

1861 in D. Detzer Donnybrook (2004) 52 Sais she, if you don't get out of them potatoes I'll blow your brains out. Sais I, dry up, you old pispot.

1862 G. N. Bliss Let. 1 Apr. in J. M. McPherson For Cause & Comrades (1997) iv. 56 A God damned fussy old pisspot utterly incompetent for the position he holds.

1972 C. Neider Authentic Death Hendry Jones 226 You pisspot you! You shot him in the dark.

1974 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Nov. 65/3 Eventually every house in the area will have a bottle collection crate and we'll be collecting more than Mosman. As the Mayor told me, they're much bigger pisspots.

1984 L. Auchincloss Book Class vi. 85 Save Georgia from the infamy of being hornswoggled by that self-righteous pisspot.

2002 T. Horwitz Blue Latitudes xi. 319 Cook was an alcho, a total pisspot.

1944 J. O. Raines Let. 25 Nov. in W. M. McBride Good Night Officially (1994) vi. 142 We heard the radio ask the P-38s if they had found any ‘bogies’. The P38s answered..‘Hell, yes, a piss-pot full of 'em.’

1959 J. O'Hara From Terrace (1999) 865 You'd be making a pisspot full of money and maybe having a little fun.

1982 A. Walker Color Purple 99 You dress Mary Agnes up the right way and you'll make piss pots of money.

1999 Melody Maker (Electronic ed.) 31 July 20 ‘Rogue Trader’ and ‘This Year's Love’ are awash with..a pisspot of indie nonentities that were deemed ideal to accompany scenes of embezzlement or Kathy Burke shagging.