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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)

  1. (intransitive, mildly, vulgar) To urinate.
    • When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
  2. (mildly, transitive, vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.
    • If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, mildly, slang, transitive) 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
  4. (ambitransitive, mildly, slang, vulgar) 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

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Noun

pissing (usually uncountable, plural pissings)

  1. (usually, vulgar) 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)

  1. (slang, vulgar) 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

pluralpissings

Words formed from pissing

Phrases with pissing

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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

  1. pissicles
  2. pissier
  3. pissiest
  4. pissily
  5. pissiness
  6. pissing
  7. pissing about
  8. pissing all over
  9. pissing and moaning
  10. pissing around
  11. pissing away

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