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piss-the-bed

piss-the-bed is the alternative form of pissabed.

Meaning of pissabed

Noun

pissabed (plural pissabeds)

  1. Any dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), formerly much used for its diuretic properties.
    • Of flowers there was no trace, save of the flowers that plant themselves, or never die […] The chief of these was the pissabed.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
  2. (dialectal) Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties; bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
  3. (archaic, slang) A bedwetter.

Forms of piss-the-bed

pluralpiss-the-beds

Questions about piss-the-bed

What is piss-the-bed the alternative form of?
Piss-the-bed is the alternative form of pissabed.

Words near piss-the-bed in the dictionary

  1. piss-taker
  2. piss-takers
  3. piss-takery
  4. piss-takes
  5. piss-taking
  6. piss-the-bed
  7. piss-the-beds
  8. piss-up
  9. piss-ups
  10. piss-warm
  11. piss-water

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piss-the-bed (page history and authors); pissabed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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