piss

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Urine.

   • This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.
   • [among the list of elixir ingredients][…]Of piss and egg-shells
   • Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation.
2. 2

   The act of urinating.

   • I'm desperate for a piss!
   • But the urinal was safe, no unshielded pissing trough, but a nice, modest urinal, with a wall on each side of you so you could have your privacy. … That was one of the best pisses of my life.
3. 3

   Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.

   • 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.
   • ‘Want some advice?’ I said. ‘Stay off the piss. You won't want to be handling this kind of thing with a hangover.’
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   1. 4

      An intensifier.

      • piss-poor
      • Irene went down to her studio and brought the painting upstairs. She leaned it against a wall and then she and Mary contemplated it from across the room. 'It really is piss-ugly,' said Mary with a note of grudging affection in her voice.
      • “You are piss funny, Caolan O'Donnell, you really are.”
   2. 5

      To urinate.

      • When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
   3. 6

      To discharge as or with the urine.

      • If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.
      • If any piss filthy matter, or little scales, or withal the urine have a strong smell, it shews ulceration of the bladder.
   4. 7

      To achieve easily.

      • "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."
   5. 8

      To rain heavily.

      • 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'.
      • Let's face it, they're there for a good stroll on a Sunday afternoon when it's pissing outside.
      • Normally she would have left the car at home and walked to the hotel but it was pissing rain and she didn't want to meet Jeff looking like a drowned rat.
   6. 9

      Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.

      • 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!"
      • There was nothing left of the sundae except a puddle of white foam muddied by chocolate syrup, with a cherry floating on top. "Oh, piss," she muttered, "the ice cream's melted."

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• synonymurinate