piss
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English pissen < Old French pissier < Vulgar Latin pissiāre, probably of echoic origin.
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piss (uncountable)
- Urine.
- 1611 Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. — Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1.
- 2005 There in a puddle of piss sat Princess Fatima, her dress up over her knees, vomit dripping onto her bodice - Richard Connelly Miller, Tanglefoot
- (vulgar, slang) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
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urine
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to piss (third-person singular simple present pisses, present participle pissing, simple past and past participle pissed)
- (intransitive) To urinate.
- 1601 O Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think on ’t, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i’ the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe? — Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5.
- (transitive) To discharge as or with the urine.
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- (1): pee (euphemistic); wee (childish), wee-wee (childish)
- (2): tinkle (childish)
- (3): make sissy (Yiddish influence)
- See also Wikisaurus:urinate
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urinate
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Terms derived from the noun or verb "piss"
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piss n. (uncountable)
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