pissing
/ˈpɪsɪŋ/
pissing is the present participle and gerund of piss.
Meaning of piss
Verb
piss (third-person singular simple present pisses, present participle pissing, simple past and past participle pissed)
- To urinate.
- When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
- To discharge as or with the urine.
- If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.
- 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
- 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
Noun
pissing (usually uncountable, plural pissings)
- An act of urination.
- […] the house reeked of her mother's territorial pissings; I couldn't even take a piss in my own fucking bathroom without smelling the offensive stench of this possible mother-in-law […]2007, McDago Kraut, Betwixt the Shit & Bliss, There Lies Pabusa Within, page 176
Adjective
pissing (not comparable)
- An intensifier used to express dislike of or annoyance towards the thing mentioned.
- I can't get this pissing computer to work.
Forms of pissing
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Words formed from pissing
Phrases with pissing
- pissing on
- pissing up
- pissing off
- pissing away
- pissing down
- pissing wars
- pissing about
- pissing posts
- pissing around
- pissing it down
- pissing matches
- pissing oneself
28 more phrasesFewer phrases
- pissing all over
- pissing contests
- pissing and moaning
- pissing in the wind
- pissing one's pants
- pissing like a horse
- pissing the Pope off
- pissing into the wind
- pissing out one's ass
- pissing in the popcorn
- pissing like a racehorse
- pissing out of one's ass
- pissing money up the wall
- pissing in someone's chips
- pissing on someone's chips
- pissing on someone's parade
- pissing more than one drinks
- pissing on someone's bonfire
- pissing in someone's Cheerios
- pissing on someone's campfire
- pissing on someone's Cheerios
- pissing something up the wall
- pissing on from a great height
- pissing in someone's cornflakes
- pissing on someone's cornflakes
- pissing like a Russian racehorse
- like a cow pissing on a flat rock
- pissing on someone's leg and telling them it's raining
Words that rhyme with pissing
Questions about pissing
- What does pissing mean?
- Pissing means an act of urination.
- What is pissing the present participle and gerund of?
- Pissing is the present participle and gerund of piss.
- What part of speech is pissing?
- Pissing can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pissing?
- Pissing is pronounced /ˈpɪsɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of pissing?
- The plural of pissing is pissings.
Words near pissing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pissing (page history and authors); piss (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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