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pissy

/ˈpɪsi/

pissy adjective: soaked or dirtied by urine.

Adjective

pissy (comparative pissier, superlative pissiest)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Soaked or dirtied by urine.
    • David's father immediately threw his baby's pissy clothes into the wash.
  2. (slang, vulgar) Resembling or smelling like urine.
    • Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's".1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12
    • I admit the car still has a pissy smell from what happened last year.
    1. (slang, vulgar) Weak and drizzly.
      • I wish these pissy rain showers would either build up into a storm or go away.
  3. (slang, vulgar) Anal retentive, whinging and pernickety.
    • Stop being pissy: you knew what I meant when I said "Don't touch the dial", but you prodded the dial with a fork.
  4. (slang, vulgar) Annoyed; angry; in a bad mood; pissed off.
  5. (slang, vulgar) Worthless; crappy.
    • About those times when she'd stay here while you were out on the road with your pissy little band, off to Truro or Moncton or wherever. What do you think she was doing back here? Helping her mom with the laundry?2001, Lesley Choyce, Cold Clear Morning, page 239

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Forms of pissy

comparativepissier
superlativepissiest

Origin of pissy

From piss + -y.

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Questions about pissy

What does pissy mean?
Pissy means soaked or dirtied by urine.
What part of speech is pissy?
Pissy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pissy?
Pissy is pronounced /ˈpɪsi/.

Words near pissy in the dictionary

  1. pissup
  2. pissups
  3. pisswater
  4. pisswhore
  5. pisswhores
  6. pissy
  7. pissy bed
  8. pissy beds
  9. pissy-bed
  10. pissy-beds
  11. pissy-eyed

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