piss

Substantiv

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.

   Smells of men. Spat-on sawdust, sweetish warmish cigarettesmoke, reek of plug, spilt beer, men’s beery piss, the stale of ferment.

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.’

4. 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.”

   Just watched Black Adder Goes Forth. Can I just say Ben Elton is my bloody hero for ever. If it wasn't for him I would still think voting Tory was OK. And he is piss funny ...

Verb

1. 1

   To urinate.

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

   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?

   Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

   Along by the edge of the mole he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock and from under a cocked hindleg pissed against it. He trotted forward and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   SlangTo achieve easily.

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

4. 4

   SlangTo 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.

Interjektion

1. 1

   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."

   Fowler was unresponsive when emergency services arrived and was declared dead at the scene. Fowler worked for the mayor's office for the past three years and twice ran unsuccessfully for city council. Police are asking anyone who saw a green Toyota or Honda SUV near the scene of the accident to contact them.' 'Piss!' Melchiori said again. 'He was a friend of mine.'

   Well, piss! I can't leave here now. Billy, call into the room and ask one of the girls to ask the Doc if he can guess how much longer it will be.

Formen

Plural

pisses

Präteritum

pissed

Partizip II

pissed

Partizip I

pissing

3. Person Singular

pisses