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pissabed

pissabed noun: any dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), formerly much used for its diuretic properties.

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
    • The tufted hillock […] had no buildings on and only golden clumps of piss-the-bed that were not yet gone into misty balls of seed.2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 139
  2. (dialectal) Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties; bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
  3. (archaic, slang) A bedwetter.

Forms of pissabed

pluralpissabeds
alternative formpiss-the-bed
alternative formpissy-bed
alternative formpissy bed

Origin of pissabed

From piss + bed or piss + abed, so called after the dandelion's supposed diuretic effect. Compare French pissenlit.

Questions about pissabed

What does pissabed mean?
Pissabed means any dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), formerly much used for its diuretic properties.
What part of speech is pissabed?
Pissabed is a noun.
What is the plural of pissabed?
The plural of pissabed is pissabeds.

Words near pissabed in the dictionary

  1. piss-ups
  2. piss-warm
  3. piss-water
  4. piss-weak
  5. pissaba
  6. pissabed
  7. pissabeds
  8. pissah
  9. pissaladiere
  10. pissaladieres
  11. pissaladière

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