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pissy-bed

pissy-bed is the alternative spelling of pissabed.

Meaning of pissabed

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
  2. (dialectal) Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties; bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
  3. (archaic, slang) A bedwetter.

Forms of pissy-bed

pluralpissy-beds

Questions about pissy-bed

What is pissy-bed the alternative spelling of?
Pissy-bed is the alternative spelling of pissabed.

Words near pissy-bed in the dictionary

  1. pisswhore
  2. pisswhores
  3. pissy
  4. pissy bed
  5. pissy beds
  6. pissy-bed
  7. pissy-beds
  8. pissy-eyed
  9. pissy-pants
  10. pist
  11. pista

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pissy-bed (page history and authors); pissabed (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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