pissed

English

Etymology

From Middle English pissed, pissede, pyssyd, pisside, equivalent to piss +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Verb

pissed

1. simple past and past participle of piss

Adjective

pissed (comparative more pissed, superlative most pissed)

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, colloquial) Drunk.
   • 1996, Hunter Davies, The Beatles, page 79:

     The waiters would send us up beer onstage as well as food, so now and again we'd end up getting pissed while we were playing.

   • 2006, Dean Riley, The Reveller: Every Lie Has Eighty Percent Truth‎^[1], page 201:

     We finished the bottle off and I was more pissed than ever, I was a fucking mess, and Johnny carried me to bed.

   • 2008, Terry Beresford, Shiner‎^[2], page 24:

     We drank, getting more and more pissed, and as we did, these four birds were growing more and more attractive, so we all sat down with them, but none of them wanted to know us, just Peter, dirty fucking bastard he was.

2. (US, Canada, mildly vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry.
   • 1987, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. DeSouza, Die Hard, scene 287:

     That one looks pissed, Ms. Gennero...

   • 1989, Judith Stiehm, Arms And The Enlisted Woman‎^[3], page 255:

     Some women were physically incapable, and the guys would say, “See, I told you women can′t hack it.” The more I saw of that, the more pissed I got, and the more determined I got to stick it out.

   • 2009, Steve Serby, No Substitute for Sundays: Brett Favre and His Year in the Huddle with the New York Jets‎^[4], page xv:

     So I was already pissed at Bill to begin with, for what happened with the O′Donnell disaster the year before, and now I was even more pissed at the fuckin′ guy.

Usage notes

In Canada and Australia, pissed can mean either drunk or angry. The term pissed off is commonly used to unambiguously give the meaning angry.

Synonyms

• (drunk): drunk, intoxicated, bladdered, blotto, plastered, rat-arsed; see also Thesaurus:drunk
• (annoyed, angry): pissed off; see also Thesaurus:angry

Derived terms

• pissed as a fart
• pissed as a newt
• pissed as a parrot
• semi-pissed

 

Related terms

• piss-up (noun)

Translations

drunk

• Bulgarian: пиян (bg) (pijan)
• Catalan: trompa (ca), gat (ca)
• Finnish: kännissä (fi), humalassa (fi)
• German: betrunken (de), besoffen (de), blau (de)
• Macedonian: пи́јан (píjan)
• Polish: pijany (pl) n
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt)
• Russian: пья́ный (ru) (pʹjányj), (colloquial) бухо́й (ru) (buxój)
• Spanish: borracho (es)
• Swedish: packad (sv), full (sv)

annoyed, angry

• Bulgarian: ядосан (bg) (jadosan)
• Catalan: emprenyat (ca)
• Finnish: vihainen (fi), vittuuntunut (fi)
• French: furax (fr)
• German: angepisst (de), sauer (de), wütend (de)
• Italian: incazzato (it) m
• Macedonian: изнерви́ран (iznervíran), гне́вен (gnéven), лут (lut), ја́досан (jádosan)
• Portuguese: puto (pt) (Brazil), chateado (pt)
• Russian: злой (ru) (zloj), серди́тый (ru) (serdítyj)
• Spanish: enojado (es), disgustado (es)
• Swedish: irriterad (sv)

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