piss artist

Noun

piss artist (plural piss artists)

1. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) Someone who is frequently drunk.
   • He pulled over to the roadside the policeman walked up to the door Goth had got the window wound down by now, all the copper said to him “get out the van Goth” he just fell out the van laughing, the policeman saying what’s funny Goth. He then said I am painter and decorator by trade and you said it...2006, James T. Long, Knights of the Far East, page 144
   • “Yeah, but I’m no drinker, I’m a drunk. A piss artist, a tosspot. I’m sloshed 24/7. Last week I had to use a rope to keep my trousers up, because I was trembling so hard each morning that I couldn’t be arsed with a belt.”2014, T.M.Simmler, In Vino Veritas:Shaking Frenzy, page 73
2. (UK, slang, vulgar) Someone who frequently ridicules or shows contempt for others.
   • Just as aspirant poets are weighed down with the weight of prior aesthetic achievements and are driven by an Oedipal desire to supersede their literary forebears, so too todays band of offensive advertisers are beset by the saprogenic accomplishments of the promotional piss artists of times past...2001 June 7, Stephen Brown, Marketing: The Retro Revolution, page 218
   • Piss-artists all of them, charlatans who'd rather paint a cold fish than a ripe peach.2009, Siriol Troup, Beneath the Rime, page 83
3. (UK, slang, vulgar) Someone who is incompetent, often a person who purports to be competent yet consequently produces botched results.