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pissabed

noun

Etymology

From piss + bed or piss + abed, so called after the dandelion's supposed diuretic effect. Compare French pissenlit.

  1. derived from *bʰedʰh₂-✻ — “to dig”
  2. inherited from *badją✻ — “resting-place, plot of ground”
  3. inherited from *badi✻
  4. inherited from bedd
  5. inherited from bed
  6. compounded as pissabed — “piss + bed”

Definitions

  1. Any dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), formerly much used for its diuretic properties.

    • Of flowers there was no trace, save of the flowers that plant themselves, or never die […] The chief of these was the pissabed.
    • The tufted hillock […] had no buildings on and only golden clumps of piss-the-bed that were not yet gone into misty balls of seed.

  2. Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties

    Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties; bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

  3. A bedwetter.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA