piss

Noun

piss (countable and uncountable, plural pisses)

1. (mildly, uncountable, usually, vulgar) Urine.
   • This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.
   • [among the list of elixir ingredients][…]Of piss and egg-shells1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet...
2. (countable, mildly, vulgar) 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.1999, Tin House #2 (→ISBN, Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell), page 170
3. (mildly, vulgar) 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.1974, Donald Newlove, The Drunks, →ISBN, page 33
   • ‘Want some advice?’ I said. ‘Stay off the piss. You won't want to be handling this kind of thing with a hangover.’1985, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 140
4. (attributive, mildly, vulgar) 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.1989, Kate Pullinger, When the monster dies, Jonathan Cape

Verb

piss (third-person singular simple present pisses, present participle pissing, simple past and past participle pissed)

1. (intransitive, mildly, vulgar) 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...c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (mildly, transitive, vulgar) 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.1824, Alexander Burnett, The Medical Adviser, →OCLC, page 71
3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, mildly, slang, transitive) To achieve easily.
   • "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."2018, Carl Fogarty, The World According to Foggy, Hachette UK, →ISBN
4. (ambitransitive, mildly, slang, vulgar) To 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'.1989, Christine Dann, Pip Lynch, Wilderness Women: Stories of New Zealand Women at Home in the Wilderness
   • Let's face it, they're there for a good stroll on a Sunday afternoon when it's pissing outside.2002, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy, Penguin UK, →ISBN

Interjection

1. (mildly, vulgar) 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!"1967, Walter Otto Weyrauch, The Law of a Small Group: A Report on the Berkeley Penthouse Experiments with Emphasis on Penthouse V. Parts I and II
   • 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."1992, Sandra Brown, Three Complete Novels, Wings, →ISBN