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piss proud

piss proud adjective: having an erection when waking from sleep or, more generally or metaphorically, a false or "empty" erection.

Adjective

piss proud (not comparable)

  1. (UK, vulgar) Having an erection when waking from sleep or, more generally or metaphorically, a false or "empty" erection.
    • I fucked culture for being unnatural (it was nothing but the city's piss-proud erection).1988, George O'Brien, Dancehall Days, page 150
  2. (UK, broadly, vulgar) Falsely proud, implying an outward display of success or virility belies a dubious reality.
    • And my guess is that his piss-proud father told him...2000, Sandra Gulland, The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B, page 30
    • Full of the strong beer brewed at the camp, the men boasted, piss proud of their sexual exploits.2003, Maureen Jennings, Let Loose the Dogs, page 291
  3. (UK, dated, derogatory) Denoting an old man who marries a young woman, implying the only erection he could muster would be prompted by the bladder.
  4. (rare) Paruretic.
    • I really have to go, but nothing comes out. Not used to pissing next to twenty strangers. Piss proud?1998, Richard H. Stratton, Kim Wozencraft, Slam: The Book, page 106

Forms of piss proud

alternative formpiss-proud

Origin of piss proud

From piss (“urine”) + proud. Appears in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796): : “PISS-PROUD. Having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his — was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife”.

Questions about piss proud

What does piss proud mean?
Piss proud means having an erection when waking from sleep or, more generally or metaphorically, a false or "empty" erection.
What part of speech is piss proud?
Piss proud is an adjective.

Words near piss proud in the dictionary

  1. piss out one's ass
  2. piss play
  3. piss poor
  4. piss pot
  5. piss pots
  6. piss proud
  7. piss room
  8. piss shivers
  9. piss shy
  10. piss slit
  11. piss slits

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