pissed

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪst/

• Audio (AU):

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

     That one looks pissed, Ms. Gennero...

Usage notes

In Canada, 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

Translations

drunk

• Catalan: trompa (ca), gat (ca)
• Finnish: kännissä (fi), humalassa (fi)
• German: betrunken (de), besoffen (de), blau (de)
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• Russian: пья́ный (ru) (pʹjányj), (colloquial) бухо́й (ru) (buxój)
• Spanish: borracho (es)
• Swedish: packad (sv), full (sv)

annoyed, angry

• Catalan: emprenyat
• Finnish: vihainen (fi), vittuuntunut (fi)
• French: furax (fr)
• German: angepisst (de), sauer (de), wütend (de)
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• Italian: incazzato (it) m
• Russian: злой (ru) (zloj), серди́тый (ru) (serdítyj)
• Spanish: enojado (es), disgustado (es)
• Swedish: irriterad (sv)

See also

• pissed as a newt

Anagrams

• sepsid, spides