Word.ws English Dictionary

pissing post

pissing post noun: a cylinder-shaped public urinal, formerly used as a site for posting public notices.

Noun

pissing post (plural pissing posts)

  1. (historical) A cylinder-shaped public urinal, formerly used as a site for posting public notices.
    • “I thank you for your good will, my dear,” answered the patient husband; “you would promote me to the honour of being a pissing-post."1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
    • Only a month ago I was admired by princes, adored by women, idolised by the common people, and now I was a nobody the dogs used as a pissing-post.1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, IV.7, Dedalus 2016, p. 302

Forms of pissing post

pluralpissing posts

Questions about pissing post

What does pissing post mean?
Pissing post means a cylinder-shaped public urinal, formerly used as a site for posting public notices.
What part of speech is pissing post?
Pissing post is a noun.
What is the plural of pissing post?
The plural of pissing post is pissing posts.

Words near pissing post in the dictionary

  1. pissing on someone's parade
  2. pissing one's pants
  3. pissing oneself
  4. pissing out of one's ass
  5. pissing out one's ass
  6. pissing post
  7. pissing posts
  8. pissing something up the wall
  9. pissing the Pope off
  10. pissing up
  11. pissing war

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pissing post (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pissing post.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pissing_post. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.