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Piss

//pɪs// intj, noun, verb

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction. mildly, vulgar

    "At times he gets irritable, especially if he believes that something has been misplaced or lost: "Piss oh piss! -- where in the hell does everything go around here!""

Noun
  1. 1
    Urine. mildly, uncountable, usually, vulgar

    "This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor."

  2. 2
    informal terms for urination wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of urinating. countable, mildly, vulgar

    "I'm desperate for a piss!"

  4. 4
    liquid excretory product wordnet
  5. 5
    Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality. countable, mildly, uncountable, vulgar

    "Let's dash over to Fisher's for a fifth of that one-fifty-one West Indian. We can't drink this piss, it's degrading."

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  1. 6
    An intensifier. attributive, countable, mildly, uncountable, vulgar

    "piss-poor"

Verb
  1. 1
    To urinate. intransitive, mildly, vulgar

    "When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway."

  2. 2
    eliminate urine wordnet
  3. 3
    To discharge as or with the urine. mildly, transitive, vulgar

    "Lately I've been pissing blood."

  4. 4
    To achieve easily. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, mildly, transitive, vulgar

    ""I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats.""

  5. 5
    To rain heavily. ambitransitive, mildly, vulgar

    "She spent that night under her sheet of polythene and 'somehow managed to get only half wet', waking up the next morning to find that 'it had absolutely pissed down through the night'."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”). Displaced Old English micge.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”). Displaced Old English micge.

Etymology 3

From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”). Displaced Old English micge.

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